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...started for Newport, towed by the Vanderbilt yacht Vara. Off Seguin Island, a heavy sea was running. The roll caused a turnbuckle to break on an upper shroud. This tiny mishap put additional strain on the other stays, which snapped one by one all through the night. Soon after dawn, off Gloucester, the towering mast finally crashed over the side, carrying all the rigging with it. Said Harold ("Mike") Vanderbilt: "Bad luck!" At Bristol, R. I., workmen prepared to fit Ranger with the mast that used to belong to the old Vanderbilt yacht Rainbow...
Delayed twelve hours by headwinds, the Hindenburg had reached Labrador at dawn. It swam slowly down the coast all day. At Portland, Boston and New London it dipped in courtesy gestures. About 4 p.m. it nuzzled in over Long Island to New York City, while six airplanes buzzed around it. With the sun glinting on its silver-grey sides and the four huge red swastikas on its fins, it circled once over Manhattan, then headed for its berth at Lakehurst. But a sharp thunderstorm came up and when he reached the Naval reservation, Captain Pruss took no chances, turned...
...subside, but dense black smoke still poured from the twisted heap of redhot girders and the smoldering pud- dle of fuel oil. Not until next morning was the wreckage cool enough for men to pry out all the crisped bodies within, many of them only tentatively identifiable. The dawn score of deaths stood at eleven passengers, 21 crew, while 28 passengers and 49 crew miraculously escaped. One member of the ground-crew— Civilian Allen Hagaman—also died of burns. Most survivors were badly burned and three more crew and one more passenger presently perished. One of the first...
Herr Doktor Frobenius, a lively, goateed little scholar currently lecturing in the U. S., is not surprised when people are slow to grasp the symbolic complexities of his great collection of "dawn art." "We modern Europeans," says he, "concentrating on the newspaper and on that which happens from one day to the next, have lost the ability to think in large dimensions. We need a change of Lebensgefiihl, of our feeling for life. And it is my hope that the enormous perspective of human growth and existence which has been opened to us by these pictures and by the researches...
...tourists are pouring into London by the carloard with baggage and accents revealing origins all the way from Taunton to Tokyo. They know that miles of wooden stands with rubberized bunting have been built, that one rehearsal with brass bands and everything took place before 200,000 at dawn...