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...Aboard the Mayflower once more, Mr. Coolidge left historic scenes for Swampscott. Tired, he slept...
...perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station on the way north), the Peary leading the way with MacMillan aboard. The latter discussed with Commander Byrd the likelihood of repairing one of their two disabled planes and making exploration flights over Baffin Island and Labrador before steaming on down to Maine...
Through continuous winter nights, with the mercury often at 70° below Zero, Captain Oscar Wisting* and his men kept up their scientific journals (soundings, air currents), shot vagrant polar bears that came near and even aboard, published a newspaper, tuned their radio to far-off stations, resolutely fought off solitude...
Chilean cruiser, O'Higgins, and the Peruvian transports Ucayali and Mantaro. The stevedores of the town have boycotted the Peruvian ships. Aboard one of them the Peruvian plebiscite commissioners have been publishing a "newspaper" favoring their side of the question. In the town, the Chilean newspaper, El Pacifico, published a list of all families whom the Peruvian commission had called Up0n-by way of intimidation, it was asserted...
...Cowes, England. Pennants crackled stiffly at mastheads; admirals, generals, statesmen, literary lions, captains of industry, peers and parasites eyed the heeling white boats, for it was the first day of the famed Cowes Week, and the King's cutter with Prince Henry and the Duke of Connaught aboard was racing against Sir Thomas and the others. Doubtless in the gnarled heart of that connoisseur of defeats there pricked, for a moment, the thrill of the possibility of victory; his boat was first at the gun; the royal cutter slipped farther and farther behind. But, having learned to savor...