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...Anglo-French tunnel or bridge across the Straits of Dover...
...Arthur Adams '99 of Boston and Dover, permanent secretary of his class, has been chosen chief marshal of the alumni for this year's Commencement in June...
...Cherbourg the Majestic, Minnedosa, Empress of Britain were obliged to heave to outside the roadstead for 24 hours. The Dover-Calais and Folkestone-Boulogne Channel services were held up for a day. The wireless installation at L'orient, Brittany, was smashed to pieces and two gargoyles of the famous Gothic courthouse at Rouen were torn off by the wind and hurled to the street...
Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam the English Channel from Dover to Calais. (Although the distance was only 22.5 miles as the crow flies, he swam approximately 56 miles miles.) Sullivan, 31, made his first unsuccessful attempt to swim the channel ten years ago and has made five other unsuccessful attempts since then...
...Dover, England, Leon Amundsen, brother of Roald (explorer), received a telegram dated Norwick, Alaska: "Trial flight held May 11. result very unsatisfactory. Sorry forced to abandon proposed flight [over North Pole]. Have written...