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...where the devotees will unfold their boats for an 18-mi. paddle down the Housatonic through 50 rapids (including one dangerous one) to Flanders, Conn., where the train will pick them up again. Cost of ticket: $2.25. Rent of a faltboat: $4 for a single-seater, $7 for a tandem...
...from the stable of their owner, whose horses' names always begin with B, have won the Kentucky Derby four times; and because Owner Bradley had bet $10,000 to $11,000 with Owner Louchheim that Brooklyn would beat Pompoon, winter book favorite. Twice Bradley horses have finished in tandem position in winning the Derby (Behave Yourself & Black Servant in 1921, Bubbling Over & Bagenbaggage in 1926). Since last week's race was the second one in which the pair have finished second and third this spring, there seemed no good grounds for expecting either to finish first...
...Winthrop has perhaps the most desirable position along the Charles. This becomes quite an attractive feature when you consider the number of wherries that capsize in front of your door of a fine afternoon; not to mention the intricate manoeuvres of the lads and lasses of Cambridge as they tandem along the river walk...
...general public. Entitled "New York at the Turn of the Century," it presented: a 1902 single-cylinder Oldsmobile, driven by a couple in dusters, goggles, veils, and beside it the elegant open caleche of Mr. Harris Fahnestock containing a frock-coated dandy and his feather-boaed wife. A tandem bicycle with a boomer girl in front, a Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole as Sappho, Ethel Barrymore in Captain...
...Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh piloted an airplane of his own, a new black & orange 200-h.p. touring monoplane which he tested at Reading Airdrome. Built secretly to specifications prepared by himself and Designer Frederick George Miles, the ship is equipped for blind flying, fitted with a transparent, sliding roof, tandem seats convertible into bunks...