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Shepherded by a Coast Guard tug and three tootling patrol boats, the Swedish-American liner Drottningholm nosed into New York Harbor. She had come through the most dangerous waters in the world, with 40 searchlights playing on Swedish flags painted on her hull and on the word "DIPLOMAT" in letters...
Vag had never liked Wordsworth in prep school, but today he had to admit that the old duck wasn't half bad. He was drawing near Larz Anderson Bridge now, and he felt wonderful as he idly watched single sculls whisk by far below. Then, he was over on the...
It was near midnight. The President was leaving for Hyde Park. A hulking, bottle-nosed figure dashed up, shouted exultantly: "Three more major codes signed! That's a day's work!" It was August, 1933. Days later the automobile industry had signed-all except Henry Ford. The man...
Lewis M. Thompson (the copilot) gave it more power as I nosed it down at the peak of each bounce and pulled back as we hit the swells and waves, easing the blow and still increasing air speed.
The Varsity was clocked in 6:55 over the Henley, with Cornell crossing at 6:55.8. There was no sweep of the Charles, though, for the Ithacan Jayvees led the Crimson to the finish by three seconds, or three-quarters of a length. Earlier the Freshmen nosed Cornell by a...