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...palpitated, scurried. The request of Il Duce del Fascismo was coded, then put on the air by a potent wireless transmitter. The radio operator of Sir Warden Chilcott's yacht Dolphin caught the message, carried it to Sir Austen Chamberlain. He, vacationing in Corsican waters, was soon steaming aboard the Dolphin toward Leghorn, Italy...
...inspecting one last time. He had worked on this ship, the S-35, ever since her designs were first unfolded in the Sikorsky shops. Out over the ocean it would be his task, not only to help Clavier with the radio, but to watch every cam and strut aboard. That they would flawlessly function he was certain, but he did eye for a moment the special "dolly" (wheeled landing gear) which had been added to help the S-35 leave earth, and which the pilots, once aloft, planned to drop away as excess weight...
...winters have passed since Dean James E. Lough of New York University, first conceived and tried to organize a university of 450 students, with a faculty of 40, housed aboard a steamer which would circle the globe while a year's college work was done. Twice the registration of students lagged so discouragingly that the sailing was postponed (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925). There was also the difficulty of obtaining a suitable faculty...
Last week, at long last, all was in readiness aboard the S. S. Ryndam at her Hoboken pier. Trunks were swinging to the hold. Librarian Stevens (Williams College) was arranging her shelves (a complete college reference room). Henry J. Allen, onetime (1919-23) governor of Kansas, was winding up his arrangements to publish a daily newspaper on board, representative and facsimile of 48 U. S. dailies. At his home in Cleveland, Dr. Charles Thwing, president-emeritus of Western Reserve University and national president of Phi Beta Kappa, assembled his effects and, with Mrs. Thwing, went on from Cleveland...
...bankers swept down the river; they are gone. ' But who shall say that another age, because it happens to be over, is prettier than our own? The proud boats carried produce as well as gallantry; the niggers who fiddled helped, in their off moments, to carry bales aboard; and when the boats quit the river it was because a new and quicker freight had joined Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico. Some Eastern financiers had built the Illinois Central...