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...last that anybody heard of Pilot Ames. He never reached Bellefonte. As far as appearances went, he might have tilted off into interstellar space. A towerman on the Pennsylvania said that he had seen a plane come out of a fog bank with all its lights lit, waver for a moment, vanish again. Farmers declared that they had heard the noise of a motor above them early on the morning that Ames disappeared. Searching parties found nothing. Last week a boy, one Harry Dobson, 15, found Ames on top of a peak called Nittany Ridge, four miles east of Bellfonte...
...march with Greene's army through North Carolina. Mr. Boyd writes the language laboriously and without zest. He is not concerned with unities or nuances. He pays his subject the high honor of regarding it as more important than his treatment. The device of having the hero waver between two camps has enabled him to reveal every eddy and overtone of the abrupt little upheaval by which these colonies obtained their independence...
They have studied the I.D.R. until they know the school of the regiment backwards, they can mount and relieve the guard, and single-handed, can pursue the husky Hun back to the gates of Berlin--on paper; all this without a waver or differing in one detail from established precedent...
...Bacon, who contributes two sketches, is lively, direct, at times imaginative, but he has not yet developed a sense of form, and he seems to waver between realism and "reelism," unable to decide whether to take himself seriously or to parody his own style...
...last Saturday afternoon at Longwood, R. N. Williams, 2d, '16 defeated I. C. Wright. This means that Williams will retain the trophy which he won last year. Every see was hard fought and full of sensational playing. Williams' service was at all times terrific and the interest did not waver for a moment, since the playing was excellent on both sides. The games were scored...