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...when their junk is finished. That will depend upon the sailing qualities of their craft (Chinese Junks weather typhoons, says Black). If the first Chinese Junk ever to be built in Cambridge is not very seaworthy, it will still look pretty on the Charles. If it is a real sailor, maybe they will sail away and startle fishing captains on Brown's Bank...
...symmetry which pleases and is natural to Britons, the Hampshire grounds about which Collingwood wrote are now the home of another Mediterranean commander-Cunningham. To it and the sailor's greatest luxury, gardening, he hopes to retire. But meanwhile he has a heavy job to do. He knows that like all British servants of salt water, he must transcend his personal wants. He has a wife and family, but as Nelson used to say: "East of Gibraltar, every man is a bachelor." On the Mediterranean, every British manjack is a piece of naval equipment...
...Navy jinx is broken at last. Before an enthusiastic capacity crowd in the indoor Athletic Building the grapplers held the sailor-boys to a 16 to 16 tie Saturday afternoon while the Freshmen downed Governor Dummer...
This left the score at 13 to 6. Much depended on Tom Lacey's 165-pound fight, owing to Navy's strength in the higher weight brackets. Therefore the stands roared as Tom threatened to pin his opponent in the first minute. But the sailor managed to wrench himself free, and Lacey had to content himself with a decision...
...control of Byberry away from the city, put it under the charge of Dr. Herbert Codey Woolley, a well-known psychiatrist. Everyone felt better about Byberry. But last week Philadelphia papers headlined Byberry again as a House of Horrors. Two attendants, one a middleweight boxer, the other an ex-sailor, were accused of beating patients to death. The boxer confessed to slugging two; the ex-sailor, one. Another attendant was held as an accessory. Neither Dr. Woolley nor any of the staff members were held, although they may be called up for questioning, for they had promptly reported the deaths...