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...individual sportsman flyer were to insure himself for $5,000, his ship for $3,000 (against fire, theft, etc.). and take average coverage for public liability, passenger liability and property damage, his yearly premiums would total upward of $460. Were he to add crash insurance the figure would soar to $910-considerably more than a whole year's depreciation of his plane. Also, he would be hampered by numerous flight restrictions. Not long ago rates were even higher. Prime reason was lack of data on amateurs' accidents, forcing the conclusion that all private flyers were bad risks. Last...
Especially in recent years, Bob has been made famous by photographs of him in parody numbers of the Lampoon and in pranks executed by the board. A picture of him sitting on the Yale fence was the high point of a number following the famous theft. At the annual CRIMSON-Lampoon baseball games. Bob always drove the four-in-hand coach which carried the team over to the field and won renown for his pitching abilities against the CRIMSON. In more intimate gatherings in the Lampoon building, he was the equal of any bard in the mead hall, telling with...
...British bluejackets from the British ex-cruiser H. M. S. Philomel, launched in 1890, rated today as a training ship. With these sailors guarding Queen Street, confident New Zealand insurance men wrote policies covering glass not yet broken at premiums only 50% above normal, but charged for new fire & theft policies 1,000% above the old rate. That night Auckland went quietly to bed and next clay Premier Forbes soothed New Zealand's House of Representatives at Wellington...
Rumors circulating about last night, fixed the blame on a group of Graduate School students, who recently successfully managed to remove a machine gun and a ten-foot R.O.T.C. banner at a recent ball, while others attributed the theft to Yale men seeking revenge for the famous Yale fence robbery, or a local organization seeking to enlarge its bell equipment...
Although the theft was not discovered until Monday morning, it was concluded that the vandals gained admittance to Memorial Hall during the Sunday Chapel services at 11 o'clock, found the dark, winding stairs to the belfry, and in some inconceivable way, scaled up to the bell...