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...Beanlands, suddenly dowered by widowhood with money and a chance to gesture, thought it would be romantic to make a non-stop flight from England to Hong-Kong. Adventurer Wilmot Shap, eyeing her fortune, encouraged her, went along as navigator, hoped the trip would end in a wedding. Pilot Jimmy Wreaks, scarred and one-eyed from crashes, went because he was paid to fly the ship, thought they had a good chance of coming through. But they did not. Somewhere over Eastern Turkestan oil began to spray back from the engine; Jimmy had to make a forced landing...
...Near Wilmot is the garnet mine of Harvardman Norman Davenport, whence Henry Ford and General Electric Co. get the garnet used in fine abrasion, glass-polishing...
...standard of the great London Times. Last week's pamphlet exhibits an ignorance of the U. S. press, or a wilful inaccuracy, unworthy of the Times's amiable editor Geoffrey Dawson, who has visited in the U. S. and who maintains in Washington a correspondent, Wilmot Lewis, whose father-in-law is none other than Col. Frank Brett Noyes, president of the great Associated Press...
...baseball veteran for three years and captained the hockey team in his senior year; E. C. Lincoln '22 was a three-year regular on the nine; F. B. Cutts '28 was the man who as relief pitcher in his junior and senior years chalked up three victories over Yale; Wilmot Whitney '16 and L. F. Young '23 were leading hurlers of their day; and finally Richard Harte '17 was a three letter man, playing on the baseball and football teams in 1915 and 1916 and on the tennis outfit for his last three years in College...
...denied one of the clemency pleas, granted the other pleader a reprieve. Accordingly, one Wilmot LeRoy Wagner was electrocuted at Sing Sing for killing two State Troopers who tried to arrest him in Caneadea, N. Y., last summer; and one Ludwig Halverson Lee, convicted of killing and dismembering two women, was told he might live until July...