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...mile of the race, from the bridge to the finish, was really a race between three crews for second place. The California shell crossed the line first in 19 minutes and 55 seconds. The men in it, leaning on their oars in the calm twilight, saw Cornell stroked by Bob Wilson whose boat won in 1930, sweep across the line second by 2½ lengths. Washington was third with Navy fourth. Syracuse fifth and the others? Columbia, Penn, and M. I. T.?strung out far behind along the river...
While Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch Peary, relict of North Pole-discovering Robert Edwin Peary, waved farewell, her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Peary Stafford, the latter's sons Peary, 14, and Edward, u, and Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, 56, sailed from Staten Island for Cape York, Greenland. Also aboard were a cow (named Dilwyn Beatrice) and two pigs for Captain Bob's mother at Brigus, Newfoundland. At Cape York the boys will help erect a 60-ft. limestone monument near where their mother was born in 1893, the world's most northerly born white child...
...Yawalapiti, a primitive, vegetable-eating, pot-bellied folk were minding their daily affairs in their village on a source branch of the Rio Zingu. Women were tending babies, or grating manioc, or preparing the red paint with which they protect their naked bodies against insects. The bob-haired men were fishing with spear or bow & arrow, clearing manioc fields or fetching firewood. Some were erecting great communal houses of wicker. Although not new in anthropology, the construction of the houses was original with the Yawalapiti, who never saw any other houses. They invented trusses of tree trunks to bridge over...
...contrary to belief, had stroked a losing crew before in his life prior to this year,--in fact three seats behind him, at number 5 is the very man, Mac Bancroft, who rowed in a Browne and Nichols crew which defeated the Cassedy-stroked Nobles eight in 1929. . .Bob Saltonstall and Ben Bacon, the two other members of the veteran stern four have proved themselves for three years able to take some of the weight off Cassedy's shoulders when the stroke is raised, which is the most important duty of numbers 7 and 6. . ."Woof" Hallowell, brother of last...
...heavily as his conscience or his constituency will permit. Some family jobholders actually work; others only draw pay. Among the most industrious Capitol clerks is Mrs. John Nance Garner who gets $325 per month for ably serving her husband, the House Speaker, as secretary. Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette got his training for office as his late great father's secretary. In some Congressional families public service is an honest vocation. In others it is admittedly a racket to swell the family income by means of the clerk-hire allowance...