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...speedy faltboot of the type used by German rapids-shooting sportsmen, the fleet will consist of canoes, kayaks, single sculls, wherries, and assorted skiffs. The H.C.A.A. has under consideration an amendment to its constitution which would permit small power boats to join in the venture. If so, they will be required to remain a respectful distance behind the manually propelled craft...
...risky flight to take, for a fleet at sea in wartime would be glad to have its escort planes shoot down any air snooper. But perhaps, flying in the distance, Seidenfaden's plane was taken for one of the escort. He overtook the Nazi vanguard near the Norwegian coast, swooped down in time to see the first units of the Nazi fleet moving into Oslo Fjord...
Journalist Seidenfaden used his head. He landed in Oslo, headed for the nearest wireless office, and put his news on the air. A few hours later he escaped to Stockholm. His dispatch was the first definite information that the German fleet was moving on Norway. Luck, enterprise and brains, the three ingredients of newspaper beats, last week had given Erik Seidenfaden the first beat of the new war in the north. Mysterious Invasion...
While vague and wishful stories out of Stockholm insisted that Germany's lines of communication with Oslo had been cut by a British fleet, Veteran Stowe spent four days in Oslo (with Warren Irvin of National Broadcasting Co., Christian Science Monitor's Edmund Stevens) and watched five more Nazi transports nose their way up Oslo Fjord...
...Crimson nine dropped its second league tilt to the veteran Cornell aggregation, but there were some bright spots in defeat. Torbie Macdonald, fleet center fielder, got two hits in five trips to the plate and continued to lead the Harvard regulars in hitting with a .353 mark. Charley Brackett was rushed to Lou Clay's resene and hurled five innings of good ball, giving him further claim on the number two pitching assignment...