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...broken in it, rousing his suspicions. He took four bottles which had not broken and was about to clear the trunk and its owner, one D. Fish of London, when from a bundle of laundry tumbled unexpectedly several little books of paper slips. They were lottery tickets. Further search of Mr. Fish's baggage revealed a total of 1,000,000 tickets on the Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes on the Epsom Derby. Convinced that the U. S. would be a fertile market after the publicity given the winning of $886,360 by Clayton Woods of Buffalo last month...
...There was vigor in the old Lampoon. There was search for rowdy storm and stress, But the dignified new workers Of the lime-light have been shirkers...
...last fortnight (TIME, Mar. 23) were a daring young film-maker named Varick Frissell of Manhattan and his photographer, Arthur G. Penrod. Forlorn though the hope that they might still be alive, Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell, last week persuaded famed Pilot Bernt Balchen to fly in search of them, in com-pany with his friend F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow. Through weather nearly impassable, Pilot Balchen pushed a Sikorsky amphibion as far as Corner Brook, N. F., about 500 mi. short of the goal. There he had to wait for a special train to arrive...
...perfect art in which subtlety is omitted. Unless the Inklings editor uses Skrip ink, the stains he has gotten on his ibis feet are not the kind that wash out easily. We do not defend the Vagabond or know whether or not he strays into the Radcliffe yard in search of romance, but if romanticism affirmative or negative at Radcliffe be blameworthy, the Lampoon may be blamed for expecting realism in the CRIMSON. Nor do we encourage any quest for classicism in the Lampoon. --Radcliffe Daily...
...purposes are to explore the Arctic Ocean floor, to study Arctic currents, temperatures, flora & fauna, to make meteorological observations, to search for an island or stationary ice floe where a weather station might be built, and to thrill Hearstpaper readers. He has radio receiving and sending equipment in the ship, will steadily report the minutiae of his progress, just as the world cruise of Dr. Hugo Eckener's* Graf Zeppelin were reported by him. Lady Grace Drummond Hay and Karl von Wiegand...