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...piled up since last August when all American Export Line ships-although not allowed to carry passengers to or from Bermuda-had been going over 400 miles out of their way to allow Bermuda stevedores to come aboard and take off mailbags. There was also a great accumulation of Clipper-borne mail, for an unusual amount of "engine trouble" and "head winds" had forced Pan American Airways to stop at Bermuda on all of the last six westbound transatlantic crossings. As all U. S.-European mail is carried by the Export Line or by Pan American, Bermuda last week...
This is the opinion of Dr. John E. Gordon, professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at the Medical School, who has just returned by clipper from England where he was laying the ground work for the establishment of a hospital and public service health unit by Harvard University and the American Red Cross for the study and treatment of communicable diseases under wartime conditions...
When peace was decided on, Morize decided to return to Cambridge, but until this month he was unable to secure his visa to the United States. He is now believed to be travelling to Lisbon to catch a trans-Atlantic clipper...
...from machine gunner in a Finish bombing plane to translator in the French bureau of North American Propaganda, and he ended his year's career with an amazing Odyssey which carried him through Norway, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and German-occupied France before he arrived at Lisbon and the Atlantic Clipper...
Maurice Friedman '43, received a fifth prize of $50 for his essay submitted to the committee. The winner of the contest received $1,200 in cash and a free trip to China on the clipper...