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...Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, wife, son and three daughters. Dressed in old pants, blue sweater and floppy white hat, Franklin Roosevelt received them with a day's growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral for lunch. That afternoon he played his favorite game, tacking into shallow water, dodging among rocky islands where his deep-draft escorts could not follow. Vastly relieved were his guardians when the Sewanna hove back in sight after half-an-hour and they heard the President's great laugh ringing across the waters...
...Coast & Geodetic Survey is getting started this year on an undersea mapping project which will require three to six years, from the Delaware Capes to Nantucket. Assisting the Oceanographer are three small vessels: the Lydonia, which is doing inshore work in water as shallow as five fathoms; and the Gilbert and Welker, which serve as station ships to keep the Oceanographer constantly able to find its position within a quarter-mile. This is done by discharging TNT bombs from the mapping ship; the sound is picked up by hydrophones on the two station ships and automatically sent back by radio...
...never developed a sound singing technique. Loyal San Franciscans admit that her voice is unreliable, that her greatest asset is her blonde good looks. Her appearance alone helped her in Manhattan last week.' Many a sensitive listener squirmed while she sang. Frequently she lapsed from pitch. Often her shallow tones were completely lost in the maze of the orchestration...
...choices. They can mount the pinnacle by way of the notorious First & Second Steps, the latter of which rises smooth and sheer for 100 ft. like a battle-cruiser's bow. Or they can follow a long band of rocks skirting the summit and leading to a long, shallow couloir which points straight up the face to the top. George Leigh Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine are thought to have climbed the First Step before they met their death in 1924. In 1933 Smythe struggled 50 ft. up the couloir, stopped 1,000 ft. short of the summit, convinced...
...experiences may tend to fixate infantile behavior. ... If the seducer is a parent, the child becomes doubly preoccupied with problems of family relationship. There is surprisingly little feeling of guilt and anxiety in these children. . . . Where the experience is repeated the children (at least girls) acquire a peculiar shallow callous attitude with an underlying softness appropriate to childhood. They tend to dissociate the experience from any concept of child-bearing or family life. While they obtain satisfaction from the experience, they learn only incidentally that it is wrong. They are rarely a menace to other children and can often...