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...avert such catastrophes, Lieut. Charles B. Momsen developed a special "lung" life-preserver for submariners (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week at the mouth of the River Thames off New London, Conn., Lieut. Momsen took the salvaged S-4 to the bottom again with a newsreel outfit aboard-director, camera man, sound man-to publicize the success of his device by filming ten seamen escaping to the surface...
...Alfonso XIII of Spain, sailing his yacht Toribio II: a national regatta for 8-metre and 10-metre sailboats, in stormy, treacherous seas off Santander. His wife, Queen Victoria-Eugenia, was aboard the Osborne, which finished third; their sons Jaime and Juan were fifth...
When the Raymond & Whitcomb cruise ship Carinthia (chartered Cunarder) with 450 U. S. tourists aboard hove into Leningrad last week, obliging Soviet travel agents appeared, conducted them on a four-day tour (including Moscow) for which each paid $400. This figures out to a total of $180,000, but the Soviet press presently announced that the tourists actually spent $250,000. "One man from Boston," said Pravda, "paid our Government 25,000 rubles [$12,750] for a silver tea set which belonged to the Tsar." Buying began on the very landing pier in a specially erected bazaar, stocked with products...
...Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company under a Crown charter John Winthrop, arch-Puritan, sailed from Eng land in March 1630, aboard the tiny Arbella. On June 12 he landed at Salem. With him were 900 settlers in eleven ships. They moved to the mouth of the Charles River where they built a village and called it Boston...
...Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator aboard Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between Roosevelt Field and Harbor Grace, N. F. in December 1927. The plane was to have attempted a flight to Denmark. Frank Goldsborough qualified for his pilot's license last November, established a junior record for transcontinental flight two months ago (TIME...