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...last Admirals' conference in British Eastern waters was 13 years ago. Host last week in Singapore harbor aboard his flagship cruiser Kent was a rare and racy Tipperary-blooded quarter decker, Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer. He was Flag Captain in the Battle of Jutland to Admiral Jellicoe of the Grand Fleet, today commands the China Station...
...would soon recognize Mendieta's government. Unembarrassed by the general belief that he was responsible for Batista's making of President Mendieta, U. S. Observer Jefferson Caffery rushed off in a destroyer to meet his boss, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, homing from the Pan-American Conference aboard the cruiser Richmond. He then rushed back on the destroyer to tell President Mendieta "informally" that President Roosevelt plans to recognize his government...
...Eighnhorn, a Russian officer, was Husband No. 1. She divorced him for drunkenness in 1914, married Dr. Julius Fraenkel, a famed New York endocrinologist who died in 1919. Husband No. 2 sent her spirit messages, she said, to marry Alexander Smith Cochran, carpet tycoon, whom she met aboard boat with Harold Fowler McCormick...
Even an extraordinary newshawk, obliged to send a story a day from the Antarctic, must resort to much journalistic bilge. The newshawk with Byrd's Second Antarctic Expedition, Charles John Vincent Murphy, is not extraordinary. But last week aboard the Jacob Ruppert as she crept through the drift ice toward Little America, Reporter Murphy was unexpectedly handed the ideal Byrd expedition story of sudden danger, a narrow escape and a happy ending...
...aware that nobody could steal the show from them. With salty, side-whiskered Father Howard Ernest Wheeler looking on, the big cruiser, a yacht-like affair with flying bridge and twin screws, was warped into place with less than a foot to spare. Crowds stood in line to go aboard and gape at her two staterooms with yellow brocaded bedspreads; her tiled shower with hot and cold water; her three toilets, her spacious saloon; her dining nook; her galley with gas stove, refrigerator, pantry. Unusual for a ship of that size was the flying bridge, with all controls away from...