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Meanwhile in the Belgica Capt. Ernest de Muyter (fourtimes winner) with Leon Coeckelbaerg fought lightning, snow and loss of altitude. All ballast gone, Coeckelbaerg slid down the drag rope into a tree to lighten the load, but the bag settled at Adams, Mass., a 435 mi. mark. For the co-pilot's heroism, disqualification was threatened...
...their University Drag, slow fox-trot honors went to a mother & son, Mrs. Anna L. Keenan and Walter Keenan of Philadelphia, who described it as "a sort of Rudy Vallee foxtrot. . . . And don't call it the 'Varsity Drag,' please. It's the University, and a very dignified dance." Principal features are an erect body bent slightly forward and the slow drag of the feet from back to front after each step. Collegiate jiggers will dance it with a slight bend of the knee. Conservatives will do it with more dignity, legs straight...
...more they follow and do not lead. For the Dancing Masters well know now that it is not their fiat that calls the turn in U. S. dancesteps, but such creations as Gilda Gray's Shimmy, Bill Robinson's tapping, George White's Black Bottom, Schwab & Mandel's Varsity Drag, such agencies as Tin-Pan Alley...
...scientific data. It had the financial support of the King of Sweden and Norway and of Alfred Nobel. His balloon, an elaborate affair, measured 97 ft. from the top of the bag (wt. 1½ tons) to the bottom of the two-decked basket. It was rigged with drag ropes and sails, by which Andree was confident the prevailing south winds would blow it over the Pole, 700 mi. away...
...supper. Occasionally beaters instead of grouse are hit, and then damages must be paid. One U. S. sportsman who gave $500 for a slight injury warned his friends that his generosity had stimulated other bearded gillies to come too near the guns. When a beater falls, other beaters drag him away; when a grouse falls, the ground huntsman lets a dog out of the blind. Some huntsmen use setters, some pointers, some cocker spaniels. The dogs are trained to retrieve dead birds and catch wounded ones that are scrambling off in the heather...