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...Most celebrated example: the Dumaru, which sank in an electrical storm in the Pacific. The crew of one of her lifeboats sailed 1,300 miles to the Philippine Islands, one of the longest open-boat trips since Captain Bligh's 3,618-mile voyage in 1789. The starving survivors kept themselves alive by cannibalism. The menu: the chief engineer and a fireman-who (said the survivors) died of their own accord...
Francis H. Caskin III '44 of Winthrop House and Danvers, Massachusetts has been picked to manage the Harvard University Band in his Senior year. He is the winner of one of the longest competitions the Band has ever run, it having lasted from mid-years last winter up to the present time. He will be secretary-treasurer of the Band during the coming year...
...Marines made ready to leave, scores of other foreigners followed suit. To the financial depression, long since brought on by Japanese control of the city, there was added personal panic. Morbid drinkers who stared along the "world's longest bar" at the Shanghai Club fancied they could see not only the curvature of the earth but a tragic turning of destiny...
What will probably turn out to be the roughest hardest longest soccer game of the year is scheduled for 10 o'clock this morning when the Cadets of Army will attempt to march over the Crimson forces of Coach Jim McDonald and Captain Jack Penson...
...feet, Jumper Starnes cracked his first chute, passed out for a few seconds as it slowed him down, fast. When he came to, he cracked the second. He landed in a cow pasture south of Chicago. Said he: "I'm certain that the jump is the longest delayed fall ever made in the U.S. and perhaps in the world." No man from Mars gave...