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...fatalistic equanimity. Every few years a hurricane kills a few hundred of them, destroys their homes and crops. They name the hurricane for the saint on whose day it occurred, then forget about it. When on the day of San Eusebio last week the sea became still under a windless sky, natives were suddenly reminded of the hours preceding the hurricane of San Felipe four years ago (TIME, Sept. 24, 1928). They gathered in clusters, looking southeast. A few boarded up their windows. Others did 'nothing until police began herding them into their least flimsy churches and schoolhouses...
...pilot ventured a take-off that day. Jack O'Meara, who has glided up & down thermic currents over Manhattan, soared for 3 hr. 42 min., climbed to 3,259 ft., 45 ft. short of the U. S. altitude record. Other pilots & crews amused themselves as they do on windless days, playing baseball...
...sure, perfectly rounded game, Sarazen played his first round in the championship on another windless, sunny day. A bunkered drive on the 18th cost him a shot but his score, 70, was four under par and only one above the course record. Next day he came to the 18th with a chance for a 68. He changed clubs for his second shot, pressed, took a five for a 69 His two-round total was a low record and he was three strokes ahead of the field. After shooting another smooth, effortless 70 he said: "Anyhow, that's far better...
...Like ex-Commodore Vanderbilt, his favorite sport ashore is tennis. One of his brothers, William T. Aldrich, is Commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club at Boston. The New York Yacht Club's Commodore is an affable and patrician boatman, a lively but retiring enthusiast. His bitterest disdain is windless weather because it makes yachting "not very enjoyable...
...from the start. Marathon races were well-patronized then; the greatest of runners was Dorando, a confectioner from the island of Capri. Hayes was 22, the son of an East Side Manhattan Irish baker; he was 5 ft. 3 ¾ in. tall and his number was 26. One hot. windless day. late in July, a gun was fired, and the runners strung out along the road, jogging slowly in the haze of early afternoon...