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...kept rendezvous with her trimotored Ford refuel plane over Fairbanks that evening only 30 min. behind time. Throttled down to comparatively slow speeds the planes flew together while the Fort Worth drained 200 gal. from her nurse above. Then both flew on to Nome, made contact again in a brisk wind. A load of 435 gal. was needed to complete the flight. After taking 300 gal. the Fort Worth became unmanageable in the wind. Robbins & Jones could not hold her steady enough to complete the transfer. Finally they gave up, landed at Nome, announced they would try again with...
...three Harvard eights went for their last row on the Charles late yesterday afternoon, the Jayvee and third boats embarking first for a short excursion downstream, and returning immediately to the Newell boathouse. Shortly afterward the first boat set out for the Basin at a brisk paddle, proceeding below the Technology boathouse. On the return trip Cassedy set a slightly higher beat, and was rowing a good 40 when the shell passed under the Lars Anderson Bridge. From today until the end of the week the squad will be free to do as it likes. Whiteside feeling that the danger...
...Hearts" and "Soldier on the Shelf" (Columbia)?The lilting waltz from the German film, Zwei Herzen, coupled with a brisk, military bit. Ben Selvin plays them...
Primo Carnera, Italian brobdingnag, eased his 272-lb. carcass into a ring in Miami and sat down on his stool while various brisk little men fussed around him. One of the men was a doctor, for Carnera was supposed to have cracked one of his lower right ribs in training. The doctor had authority to stop the fight at any time if the patient felt badly. In the opposite corner sat Jim Maloney, hairy, amiable and hog-fat, who lost a ten-round bout with Jack Sharkey five years ago when Maloney was considered a fighter. Last autumn with...
...Brisk and businesslike was the annual report issued by Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament last week. Addressed neither to the President-to whom the department is dear-nor the Congress, it was the last of the nine reporting departments to make its statement. Secretary Lament wasted no time in probing the causes of the Depression, made instead the following observations...