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...Fifth Leg...
...Manhattan, one Omar Lutfey, restaurateur, emerged from a speakeasy, saw Patrolman William Dunn, flung himself to the ground, gnawed the policeman's leg, roared, "I'm a lion...
...until on the last lap, tacking along inshore close to the Cape Ann rocks, it skirmished into the lead to win. The losers, unwilling to give up another day's fishing, conceded to Capt. Manuel Domingos of the Progress the $2,150 prize money, the Prentiss Trophy, one leg on the Davis Trophy. The stalwart, suntanned helmsman of the Progress: Prof. George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, saltwater friend of the Secretary of the Navy, father of Harvard's famed all-round athlete (George Owen...
...hero procession. Over it sailed a laugh at the smart community, an airship hailed as the Graf Zeppelin. It was the Los Angeles, returned unexpectedly from Cleveland. The Graf Zeppelin stayed at Lakehurst having its Los Angeles damage repaired and being refueled and reinflated for its last leg home to Friedrichshafen...
...their wills. The dirigible rode out the storms comfortably. She tried to pass over Seattle. But winds made that excursion impracticable. To San Francisco she went directly, sidling through the Golden Gate on a cross wind near sunset; then to Los Angeles where she hovered until dawn. The remaining leg of her globe-trot, to Lakehurst, N. J., seemed commonplace after man's first flight across the whole vast, empty Pacific Ocean...