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...Columbia 150's swept over the finish line five lengths in advance of the sprinting Penn oarsmen who just managed to edge out the Tiger lightweights by the margin of a front deck. Yale trailed Princeton by a length. The winning time for the mile and a quarter course was seven minutes and eight 3-5 seconds...
Took Advantage of Me," and several other competent ones. Joyce Barbour is its most noticeable decoration; Charles King, once of Hit the Deck, plays the pretending private...
...Hongkong, a Fairy 3-F seaplane with three Royal Air Force officers aboard became unmanageable in the air directly above the aircraft carrier H. M. S. Hermes. Plunging down like a plummet it tore a hole in the Hermes' flying deck, burst into flames and then rolled overboard into the sea. By smart work with a boat-hook the dead body of Flying Officer A. W. Hale was recovered before it sank; but divers had to go down after what remained of Air Lieutenant J. H. Graham and Telegraphist Stanley Jackson...
...Later in the evening Admiral Collard sent for Commander Daniel and ordered him to clear the Marine Band off the quarter deck. Rear Admiral Collard abused the bandmaster in front of the whole band...
...Despite the unreasonableness of Admiral Collard's request, the band was dismissed and a jazz band summoned. The attack on the bandmaster caused great dissatisfaction among the lower deck and intense indignation among the officers organizing the dance...