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...steamship Bergensfjord landed in Manhattan last week with a cargo of 34 musk oxen for the U. S. Government. The animals had come all the way from East Greenland via Norway; had even farther to travel after they reached Manhattan. The U. S. Government had bought them to release in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Alaska. The U. S. plans to spend $40,000 to re-establish the herds of musk oxen which disappeared from Alaska before men can remember...
...first blow dealt the Harvard football forces via injuries occurred yesterday when it became known that G. N. Talbot '32, veteran guard, who was injured about ten days ago was definitely out of the opening game with Vermont on Saturday...
...mounted the rostrum "Uncle Arthur" looked strangely thin. No wonder. He had just lost a "stone" (14 lb.). Under doctors' orders he and Mrs. Henderson spent most of August gulping down the slimming waters of a Welsh spa (Llandrindod Wells), from which they hastened via London to Geneva. In pulpit tones, measured, slow and once or twice ringingly fervent, Mr. Henderson made last week the speech of his life, successfully courted fame by demanding that the League act to achieve Disarmament, cease piddling about "Security," the Frenchified nebulosity upon which M. Briand is trying to erect his famed "United...
...Argentine Government and was officially refuted by NYRBA officials. Petition for cancelation of contract was made in order to simplify readjustment of routes and mail dispatch between the two American companies which will now fly out of Argentina and Uruguay-Pan American Grace Airways over the Andes and northward via the West Coast, and Pan American Airways northward directly up the East Coast, over the NYRBA route...
Said Capt. von Gronau in the New York Times: "I had planned this flight [via Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Canada] for two years, but I did not tell Zimmer and Franz and Fritz until we reached Iceland because I did not wish the authorities to find out. . . . They would have stopped me because of the risk and other things, and so I just went. One must have some daring if one is to live one's dreams...