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...beautiful rainbows, double omens of a happy visit, hung over Kailua one morning last week as the U. S. S. Houston, with President Roosevelt aboard, glided up to the west coast of the island of Hawaii. Governor Poindexter bustled out from shore to pay his respects. Then the President was free to go fishing for the great a'u. All day he fished and fished but at night returned a'uless to the Houston...
...Idrottsbladet scathingly pointed out, international judges rated sleek-legged Miss Vinson fifth for the world championship largely because she skidded and fell. They gave fourth place to a Swedish girl and first place as usual to Norway's superb Sonja Henie. Able Lawyer Steinhardt had already stepped aboard a steamer bound for Gotland, Sweden's "Island of Roses and Ruins," when Idrottsbladet' story was shown to him. He claimed to have been utterly misquoted: "In my speech I praised the punctuality, accuracy and knowledge of the rules possessed by Swedish officials, advising our athletes to comply strictly...
Canada's rich, pious and paunchy Premier Richard Bedford Bennett sped to Quebec as the trig little liner Duchess of Richmond steamed in from Liverpool. Aboard was the Prime Minister of Great Britain, James Ramsay MacDonald, and his Housekeeper-Daughter Ishbel, on a three-month Canadian vacation. Whisked off by Premier Bennett, silver-haired, 67-year-old Scot MacDonald was soon sailing across the Bay of Fundy, driving up to a tiny cottage in Digby for the rest which eye-strain has imposed on him. As Ishbel sent out for more vases to hold the flowers which Digby...
...Dillingham had famed old swimmer Duke Puo Kahanamoku. who took up sailing two years ago. A Hawaiian prince named David Kawanakoa was in the afterguard of the 48-ft. yawl Dolphin. Youngest sailor was Cinemactor Billy Butts, 14, on Naitamba. Hiram T. Horton. retired Chicago steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi on which he and his family sailed round the world three years ago. Six other little sailboats made up the largest fleet ever entered in the California to Hawaii race since it was first sailed in 1908. They put out from Los Angeles Harbor on July...
Manuiwa was one of the three Hawaiian entries in the Pacific race, one of the two boats that carried a radio transmitter. Halfway across, she sent a message: "All aboard Manuiwa are well but worried about where our competitors may be." Honolulu was also sufficiently worried to send navy planes out to search for five boats that had not yet finished: Scaramouche, Viva, Queequeg, Naitamba, Common Sense. But they all arrived safely...