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S. S. Boonie Attacked From The Air Over Charles River

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Terrors of sea warfare were brought home to the University Friday afternoon at Weeks Memorial Bridge when the good ship Bonnie, all too familiar sight-seeing boat, was attacked from above.

Scores of closely scrutinized Harvard specimens on the bank and other nearly swamped scullers on the river probably looked on with secret approval when a deluge of fish, seaweed, and eels rained down upon the unsheltered unfortunates at the rear of the boat as the pilot steered a true course under the bridge.

The stout-hearted crew retaliated with a long blast from their whistle, attracting a nearly police car, which proceeded to apprehend the responsible Cambridge urchins, thus putting an abrupt end to the reign of terror.

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