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Fine weather came three days later when nine Army bombers soared out over the Atlantic for another crack at the Mt. Shasta. Fifty bombs of 100 Ib. and 300 Ib. were dropped from 5,000 ft. around the target. Only two hits were scored which damaged the rusty freighter hardly at all. The Mt. Shasta still rode high on a calm sea. Two Coast Guard cutters thereupon went alongside, spent two hours firing one-pounders pointblank into her below the water line. At last she filled with water, sank in 150 fathoms. The Navy's mocking grin...
...where the Canadian Open golf championship was played last week. Otherwise, it is not a difficult course, a little shorter- 6,545 yd.-than most links selected for big tournaments. The contestants were less worried by the course than by each other. It was probably the best field of crack golfers that has ever competed in the increasingly important Canadian Open -which has not been won by a Canadian since...
Astounding to those Britons who think St. Gandhi a crack-brained fakir is the fact that the Royal Commission's conclusions are substantially those which the Mahatma has trumpeted for years...
Incidentally, just outside Moorhead a playful twister tossed The Empire Builder, crack transcontinental flier, in a wheatfield recently...
...less than a length behind, still gaining. The Washington stroke, John Ginger, bothered by having to watch the Navy boat as well as Cornell, stepped up his stroke to 38. In the Cornell boat, Burke had stopped watching Syracuse and was telling his crew that the Navy would surely crack in a minute...