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Arrived at Hamburg, the German Delegation went aboard the Hamburg-American liner Hamburg. Drs. Brüning & Curtius at once went up on the bridge. Playfully an officer took Chancellor Brüning by the arm, saying: "It is a rule of the Hamburg-American Line that all passengers must sleep in their berths from two to four in the afternoon." From two to four Bachelor Brüning slept in his berth. Husband Curtius said he would sleep in a deck chair, cheated, was caught reading Shakespeare's Macbeth...
Blatant, big-hearted Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan and her blonde gang of greenback gatherers, well beloved in Manhattan, approached France on the French Liner Paris last week. Abruptly they were "barred from French soil," first kept aboard the Paris at Havre, then herded into a detention house half full of Polish immigrants and "legally outside of France." The Ministry of Interior, citing unemployment among French night club artistes, refused to admit competitive La Guinan et sa gang...
Fortnight ago, Manhattan's willowy, socialite Mrs. Morgan Belmont headed "through the courtesy of the French Line" a list of patronesses who sponsored a farewell party for Guinan & Gang in Manhattan aboard the S. S. Paris.? This was the first, the only Guinan party at which there were no "suckers." No guest paid a cent. Guinan & Gang furnished mirth, French Line chefs a buffet supper. Curfew was at 2 a. m., earliest ever for a Guinan party. The Belmontized farewell had the effect of toning-up Guinan & Gang, but aboard the Paris her kids did a dance ("charity concert...
...Atlantic two miles off Long Beach, N. J. where Chris Nelsen and Harry Hansen were emptying their lobster catch into their motor dory, two buck deer hove alongside. The astonished fishermen noosed the two animals, hauled them aboard, took them ashore. The game warden, who turned the bucks loose in their proper woods, guessed dogs had run them into the water...
...Bishop's contemplation of the weather was interrupted by a crash as the Livonia struck a shoal. Soon a heavy squall smote the stranded ship. The Bishop hurriedly launched his lifeboats, took all hands aboard, rowed for tiny, deserted Plana Cay. In ten minutes the Livonia had sunk...