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...that day. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King motored over a series of bridge spans, viaducts and curving highways, came to a stop on a go-foot span. Below them rippled a narrow streamer of the St. Lawrence known as the International Rift, through which runs the U. S.-Canada boundary line. Each with his right hand clutching one grip of an enormous pair of shears, they snipped a gaily fluttering ribbon. The first Thousand Islands International Bridge, from Collins Landing, N. Y. to Ivy Lea, Ont., was officially open...
Harvard at present holds the lead in points with one win by Ripley O. Jones '38 in the paper strafing, he cut the paper streamer three times before it reached the ground. Six other Harvard aviators are slated for participation: Keith Davis, George Fox '38, Whedon Johnson '40, and David Hagedorn, Carl Wickstrom, and George Foote all yardlings this year...
Ripley O. Jones '39 won the first event of the meet on Saturday, the paper-straffing, in which in 16 seconds he twice cut a streamer of paper which had been dropped from an altitude of 2500 feet. His nearest competitor's time was 23 seconds...
...colleagues would do likewise. At this point, it looked so much as though the Detroit priest, who last fortnight went on record as favoring authoritarian government in the U. S., had administered a ninth-inning defeat to Franklin Roosevelt that the New York World-Telegram ran a streamer headline: REORGANIZATION BILL SEEMS DOOMED...
...Crimson Swimmers Triumph," read the 72-point streamer headline on top of the front page, with the result that the staff of newsboys was quickly overburdened with the herculean task of distributing the issue as fast as there were requests for it. The extra contained a fairly thorough summary of the meet, including descriptions of outstanding performances and winners, and victory statements by Coach Hal Ulen and Captain Charlie Hutter...