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...Major F. B. Hurndall, seasoned and dexterous. Major Hurndall is, next to Luis Lacey, the strongest player on the visitors' side. During the War, Major Hurndall's ship was torpedoed off the Irish coast. He owes his life to a nun who, after doctors had declared him dead, rubbed his body for three hours with alcohol, restored...
According to a report, displayed as the most noteworthy news of the day by The New York Herald-Tribune, the oft-heralded floating bar has at last appeared on the Atlantic Coast. The report declares that it is a ship of 17,000 tons, nameless, flying the English flag, carrying the silver and linens of the former German liner Friedrich der Grosse. The location of the ship was 15 miles off Fire Island, a long narrow strip of land protecting the southern shore of Long Island...
...worried. They feel sure they will get through and time is no object. In the meantime, the Navy has been coöperating in wonderful fashion. The supply ship Gertrude Rask finally broke through the ice to Angmagsalik, on the south coast of Greenland, but found the clear space in the harbor too small and ice-infested for the fliers to land there. A new base has been found in a bay some fifteen miles from Angmagsalik and the "gobs" are painfully transporting supplies through the icy and stormy waters in small rowboats. The sea between Reykjavik...
Fertile California has yielded yet another precocious growth. Another Helen, this time surnamed Jacobs, has been reared on exactly the same regimen as "Poker" Wills. She has won the Pacific Coast championships in both the junior and girls' divisions. Aged 15, she is being coached for the national junior event in Philadelphia next month by the same man, W. C. Fuller, who primed Poker Face to win that title in 1921, also aged...
...doubtful if anyone would journey to Greenland with a view to settling there, even if the Danes would permit it. Greenland is 4,000 to 5,000 feet high throughout, rocky, craggy, eternally covered with several hundred feet of snow. A few tiny ports and harbors on the lower coast levels are open part of the year, a couple of months at most. This year the weather has been most unfavorable; a frozen and drifting sea, for a width of 30 miles, now guards the entrance to the eastern and southern shores...