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...life Edward has been destined to be a king-and the dawn of 1936 saw that destiny fulfilled. Popular throughout the world as the Prince of Wales, he has become even more popular as King Edward, and has won the admiration and respect of his subjects...
...with the idea in mind" of entering it in the Johannesburg Air Race. The deposit on the aircraft was received on Sept. 10 and Captain Mollison arrived in the U. S. the latter part of September, first coming to our factory on the 28th. The Johannesburg Race started at dawn from London on Sept. 29. The delivery date given Captain Mollison when placing the order was October 15; our pilot tested the machine on the 14th and it was ready for Captain Mollison on the date promised...
...grey dawn was breaking over Texas last week when a strapping, six-foot figure in cowhand clothes strode out. on the 80,000-acre Storey Ranch near Cotulla. The hard-preaching, hard-riding pastor of South San Antonio's First Baptist Church, Reverend Robert Gaddy Baucom, faced an impressive, tensely quiet assemblage. Lined up in front, 257 eager hounds strained at their leashes. At one side a Master of Hounds and twelve field judges sat their horses. Behind the dogs ranged 150 other mounted Texans, more than 1,000 in automobiles and trucks of every size and shape...
They had stowed away on the West Mahwah but were discovered at midnight, two hours after sailing. Furious, Captain Hansen at once ordered a few pieces of painters' staging spliced together, gave the boys two bottles of water and a loaf of bread, set them adrift. At dawn the four castaways sighted Coffin Island 15 miles away, tried to reach it by paddling with their hands. They were still far away that afternoon when the fishing smack Desafio picked them up, carried them to Ponce...
...cold gray dawn one day last week a wandering Yard Cop stopped by the John Harvard statue in front of University Hall. Although the moon was shining brightly, it seemed to him that the Statue was bathed a trifle too much in a white, ethereal, other-wordly light...