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...ballasted by 300-ton of water lifted the tank from the flatcars to the river, where she floated half submerged. Carpenters lagged her with 14-in. timbers to protect her from bumps. A tug lashed on to a 400-ft. hawser, and at 6-m.p.h. started a three-week tow up the Hudson to Troy (142-mi.), through New York's Barge Canal to Oswego on Lake Ontario (184-mi.), and 1,045 more miles through Lake Ontario, the Welland Canal, Lake Erie, St. Clair River, Lake Huron, the Straits of Mackinac, then due south through Lake Michigan...
Same week their boats started back in tow of their motor yachts. Endeavour I was skippered by Ned Heard, veteran of Sir Thomas Lipton's challengers. Endeavour II by 58-year-old George Williams. After three days Viva returned to Newport to announce that Endeavour I had once again snapped her towline-this time in a hurricane gale. After a week of frenzied search by the U. S. Coast Guard, Lloyd's of London announced that she had been sighted by the British tanker Amastra 750 miles off the Azores, tolled its historic Lutine Bell at the good...
...first time in tow years Coach Fred Mitchell is holding fall practice for his Crimson nine. The drill began yesterday afternoon on the Varsity diamond at Soldiers Field and will continue until cold weather arrives permanently...
...clouds or "thunderheads," with flat bottoms and bulging, shifting domes were moving in on Harris Hill. On the hilltop, where the meet was in progress, Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds of faces turned up at him from the ground. Pilots of motored planes swing far off their courses to avoid thunderheads but motorless Pilot du Pont had just the opposite idea in mind. Up 4,500 ft., directly over...
...socialism. Included in her haphazard schooling were two years during the War in an Arkansas cooperative colony run by radicals and conscientious objectors, where she read William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Zola. When her mother came back from an anti-War tour with a young Irish poet in tow, they all went to Seattle, where Bertha's mother entered the University of Washington. There Bertha, now 16 and 160 lb., "like a truck horse," had her first lover. She took to the road, fell in love with an anarchist in San Francisco, followed him to New Orleans...