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Most famed educational wanderer is Adirondack-Florida School, which opened last fortnight in cabins on the shore of Clear Pond near Onchiota, N. Y. After the Christmas holiday Headmaster Kenneth Wilson, a onetime Princeton instructor, will move his 24 pupils and six tutors to Coconut Grove, Fla. Swank Adirondack-Florida specializes in outdoor life, provides canoes in the Adirondacks, a beach and 35-ft. cruising sloop in Florida. Tuition is $1,500 plus extras. Enrolled there this year are George Nichols, grandson of J. P. Morgan, and Drayton Phillips, son of William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador to Rome. Alumni include...
...pitching masterpiece. In Pitcher Hubbell's proudest record there is less than one game for every 100 of First-Baseman Gehrig's, but the record is not, on that account, the less impressive. In the long history of organized baseball, until last week only seven pitchers (Rowe, Grove, Wood, Johnson, Marquard, Keefe, Radbourne) had ever been able to win 16 or more games in a row. Last week, the game before the one that clinched the Pennant for the Giants made Hubbell the eighth...
...Willow Grove, Pa. last week, horses shied, humans stared, as the world's first "readable'' autogiro was successfully demonstrated. With its propeller still and its three 16-ft. rotor-blades folded back like a closed fan, it chugged along the streets of this placid Philadelphia suburb at 25 m.p.h. until the driver decided to take to the air. Stepping out, he easily swung the rotor-blades into place, fixed them there with three pins. Instant later, the little machine rose into the air, buzzed off over the trees at 100 m.p.h...
Nelson, Gildersleeve '40, David L. Grove '40; John W. Hinkley '39, Raphael Silver 1G., Walter I. Wardwell...
LAURENCE K. FRANK Grove City...