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Next to the job of President who rules over all 48 United States, next to the job of Governor of New York who runs the affairs of the most populous and wealthy State, stands the No. 3 political job of the U. S., the job of managing 299 sq. mi. of territory whose importance to civilization has more than once been questioned. The importance of the job if not the bailiwick is undisputed...
Previous record was the 5,657 mi. flown in 1933 by Frenchmen Paul Codes & Maurice Rossi from New York...
...shocked to find that his small, patrician college was piling up steady deficits. President Dennett installed a budget system, launched a money-raising program for Williams' library, laboratories, teachers' salaries, scholarships. But he found 73-year-old Senior Trustee Warren, who commutes 140 mi. to Williamstown from his Boston office, interested not only in Williams but in Williamstown. This spring when the Greylock Hotel, the old hostelry across the street from Williams' fraternity row, went up for sale, Mr. Warren and four of his colleagues voted to buy it for the college. When Dr. Dennett protested that...
Died-Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams, explorer and lecturer, wife of Franklin Pierce Adams, onetime counselor of the Pan-American Union; in Nice, France. Mrs. Adams headed expeditions in Haiti, Africa, Siberia and Sumatra, made a threeyear, 40,000-mi. journey through South America starting in 1903. In 1916, she was the first woman War correspondent to visit the front-line trenches. In 1925, she organized the International Society of Woman Geographers...
...Chapman of Los Angeles went high into the Chilean Andes, managed to trap a dozen. He brought them down gradually, kept them at 11,000 ft. for two years, 9,000 ft. for a year. It took him nearly six years to reach sea level. During the 8,000 mi. voyage to California the animals were kept packed in ice. All their hair dropped off, occasionally one fainted, had to be revived with cold compresses. In Los Angeles, Naturalist Chapman put them into a large screened building divided into pens running partly underground. Now, though Naturalist Chapman is dead, there...