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...quiet Florida night last week. Then furtively came a thief to up anchor and sail away ghostlike to the south. In hot pursuit the next morning went Author Munroe, borne on the wings of a seaplane. Munroe's pilot dropped alongside of the sloop and the pursuer leapt aboard. At the point of a gun he forced the thief to come about, then he bound him and put out for the Coconut Grove anchorage...
Wilkins. Another glad runaway from Antarctica last week was Sir George Hubert Wilkins. He and Pilot S. A. Cheesman made a few observation flights in the neighborhood of Deception Island this season. As they approached Montevideo, Uruguay, aboard the Norwegian steamer Henrik Ibsen last week, they loosed a small seaplane and flew 125 miles to shore, to thorough baths, to city clothes and square meals...
...trips were made under the eye of H.H. Haines. Freshman Coach, who was accompanied on two of them by Coach Whiteside. Other passengers aboard the barge were cameramen from the Paramount and Fox Companies who were taking closeups of the rowers as well as telescopic pictures from the Weld landing and the Lars Anderson Bridge...
...President can get far away from his White House duties. After six days of mediocre fishing in the Gulf Stream off Long Key, Fla., President Hoover cut short his winter vacation and journeyed back to Washington. No Sunday fisherman, he did not want to waste an idle day aboard the houseboat Saunterer. Likewise he was impatient to get his hands back upon the London Naval Conference, where developments were not altogether to his liking. French demands had boosted auxiliary tonnage figures to such levels that the President could have read such press headlines as: HOPE FOR NAVY CUTS WANES POWERS...
Supper was a sad, silent meal one evening last week aboard the ice-locked fur-ship Nanuk off the northeast coast of Siberia. Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam, flying the Arctic beach in the Amguyema River district, had come back with scraps of twisted metal, a side of bacon and a case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were...