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Steve Donoghue's first mount, Turkish Delight, at Dublin's Phoenix Park in 1907, was a winner, but Jockey Donoghue did not become a familiar figure to British enthusiasts until he won the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket three years later. In 1915 he was entrusted with a Derby favorite. S. Joel's Pommern, and won-a performance he repeated two years later with Gay Crusader. In 1921 Jockey Donoghue became a British hero when he brought in his third Derby winner, the 6-to-1 shot Humorist, who dropped dead from heart failure six weeks after the race...
...Husband Putnam wired an appeal for a Navy search to President Roosevelt. But even before the message reached Washington, Secretary of the Navy Swanson had ordered the Navy to start hunting. By last week the search was costing $250,000 a day. The battleship Colorado hove to off the Phoenix Islands, catapulted three planes from its deck. The flyers skimmed over Gardner and McKean Islands and Carondelet Reef, saw nothing but ruined guano works and the wreck of a tramp freighter. Thousands of startled seabirds fluttered up, menacing the propellers and forcing the flyers to climb. Some days equatorial squalls...
...after Christmas, 1936, they went to Phoenix, Ariz, and were married. She had borne him a son two months before. Last April they had another of their fierce quarrels and again she went to the district attorney. On July 12 a jury of the people of California will start considering what next to do with dark Marjorie and Anstruther MacDonald...
This week's eclipse touched almost no land at all. Starting in the open sea at sunrise, it darkened the tiny specks of the Phoenix Islands shortly after 8 a. m., then the shadow rolled on across the sea, stabbing into Peru just before it ended at sundown. In the Phoenix Islands totality lasted 3 min. 35 sec. In Peru, where it lasted 3 min. 24 sec., the sun was only 8° above the horizon during totality and its darkened image was distorted by late afternoon haze. Nevertheless eclipses offer such fine opportunities to scientists to study...
...American-Grace Airways, Inc. lent an airliner to take a group of observers up 30,000 ft. into the crystal clarity of the substratosphere. At the other end of the eclipse path, the National Geographic Society-U. S. Navy Expedition set up camp on Canton Island in the Phoenix group, inhabited mainly by millions of rats (descended from shipwrecked ancestors). This party was equipped with a new material for measuring the polarization of the coronal light, a newly invented spinning filter for taking improved pictures of the corona, air conditioning equipment to keep the film cool and dehumidify the developing...