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...Maine's northeastern tip late next afternoon Yachtsman Roosevelt suddenly changed his northerly course, struck eastward across the choppy waters of the Bay of Fundy on the longest open-water sail he had taken since boyhood. Thirty hours later he had covered 125 miles, dropped anchor off Cape Sable on Nova Scotia's southern tip. As the flotilla headed north next day the President's prayer for fog was answered (TIME, July 20), but it was not heavy enough to let him escape the stream of dispatches convoyed from the Hopkins at every stop. Off the tiny...
...progress last week on Lake Michigan was the 29th running of the longest fresh-water yacht race in the world, the Chicago Yacht Club's famed Mackinac Race from Chicago up Lake Michigan, through hazardous Mackinac Straits to Mackinac Island. Sailing the 331-mile course and due to finish this week was the largest (42) fleet of yachts ever to participate. On hand to greet the winner were Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Harry M. Daugherty...
However. TIME was technically right, too, when it said that no wheel had ever rolled between North and South America. In impassable Central America Barone's journey was broken by three water hauls, the longest of which (210 miles) was from Colombia to Panama...
...Bendix prize for the meet's longest distance flight went to Chester J. Decker of Glen Rock, N. J. On the last day of the meet he took off from Elmira, climbed to 5,500 ft., found a "street" (chain of cumulus clouds). Swinging beneath it in long, irregular parabolas from cloud to cloud, he proceeded to Ottsville, Pa., where he glided down - 146 miles from Elmira. His flight narrowly missed the U. S. record of 158 miles...
Last week they were undeceived. In the longest encyclical he has ever addressed primarily to the archbishops and bishops of the U. S., Pope Pius XI roundly flayed the U. S. motion picture industry, congratulated the Legion of Decency on improving it slightly and advocated reviewing boards in every country in the world to list the cinemas fit for Roman Catholic consumption...