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GREENWICH, Conn., July 10. -- With a fine, smoky southwester blowing that sent the yachts around in fast time, the thidty-eighth annual regatta was sailed off Captain's Island today with 100 boats starting, a record fleet for this club.
Capt L and P Arrachart fly from Le Bourget Field, Paris to Basra on Persian Gulf; plane crashes on return trip
Assails Premier Baldwin as enemy of working classes
Lightning causes Denmark Lake navy arsenal explosion
1926Frederick Buechner, American minister, theologian, and author (died 2022)[†]
Carl Frederick Buechner was an American author, Presbyterian minister, preacher, and theologian. The author of thirty-nine published books, his career spanned more than six decades and encompassed many different genres. He wrote novels, including Godric , A Long Day's Dying and The Book of Bebb, his memoirs, including The Sacred Journey, and theological works, such as Secrets in the Dark, The Magnificent Defeat, and Telling the Truth.