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An impulse put Waldo Peirce on a cattle boat with his Harvard friend John Reed in 1911, and a later impulse sent him overside with a splash to swim back to Boston in what has become a classic change of heart. Huge, flat-nosed, bearded Painter Peirce. now 52, is...
Last spring 18-year-old Egyptian King Farouk went incognito to England's great festival of precedent and tradition, the Coronation season. Last fortnight Farouk the First arrived back in Cairo to have his own kingship solemnized by a ceremony for which there was no precedent, no tradition. Nearly...
At a single sitting one morning last week the new British Cabinet of beak-nosed, decisive Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resolved that the way to end 17 years of bickering and battle between Jews and Arabs in Palestine is to carve them up into separate countries. Protestant and Catholic Irish...
Pilot Tomlinson's most risky and most important substratosphere flight took place last January. Ordered to bring his Gamma to Manhattan for the Aviation Show, he and his assistant, Engineer James Heistand, deliberately took off from Kansas City in the worst possible weather, climbed to 36,000 ft. where...
In the freshman race Washington led from the start, won without raising one-half beat until the last half-mile. The Washington junior varsity finished first, cutting the three-mile course record by 34 sec. In the varsity race Washington entered the same eight stalwarts-with a new coxswain-who...