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...Department of Commerce's Air Commerce Bureau quietly sailed out to Hawaii to survey the possibility of establishing depots for U. S. airlines to the Antipodes. With similar lack of fanfare, twelve youngsters from Honolulu's Kamehameha School were thereafter packed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Itasca, taken out to Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands, established in crews of four as weather observers. Along with their instruments for noting wind velocity, rainfall and cloud formations, the boys had to be supplied with everything else to support life. None of the islands is more than 20 ft. above sealevel...
...federal coordinator of transportation" lend gravity to a scene lightened somewhat by the son of a cartoonist. The son of a psychiatrist and the son of a chiropodist run the anatomic gamut from head to foot. The year's mystery man is the son of "a paving-cutter," an occupation with a slightly sinister sound to these of us, who always thought that pavements got that way from traffic...
...behalf of Mr. Cantor, Mr. Golden, the whole body of non-resident undergraduates, and myself, I wish to convey, through your columns, our sincere thanks to Mr. Burr, Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Cutter, President Conant, Dean Hanford, and the host of college officials who cased our path, for their splendid spirit of cooperation and sincerity in establishing Dudley Hall...
...same time a group of graduates volunteered to take charge of the general administration of the social center. Headed by Allston Burr '89, former president of the Harvard Alumni Association, it includes Joseph R. Hamlin '04, R. Ammi Cutter '22, and Walter A. Smith, representative of the University's architects...
...searchlight went out. Again & again, while the Pontchartrain moved invisibly to new positions at sea, the searchlight flashed on to impale the craft on the beam's end. Nineteen times the beam struck the cutter amidships. Once it caught only the stern...