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Rushed back aboard his ship, Australia's Prime Minister was said by his physician to have suffered "merely a slight touch of the sun aggravated by his pleurisy . . . nothing serious . . . will continue on to London...
...with despatch and comfort. Mr. Brooke found a languorous island with a comfortable house, numerous servants, and a seemingly profitable copra plantation, and settled down. Lorn Messrs. Brown and Dodd found new Yale shipmates and a Harvard graduate. Last week they slowly approached New Haven aboard the Chance...
...Corsair (IV), enormous $2,500,000 yacht of John Pierpont Morgan, with Mr. and Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan aboard, shelved herself on Lobster Rock, a reef in Gilkey's Harbor, Maine. Next morning at high tide two tugs heaved sturdily, budged her not. At evening high tide two tugs and a coast guard cutter heaved mightily, floated her free. Mr. Morgan received the news at Gannochy Lodge in Forfarshire where he had gone for the grouseshooting...
...served on a submarine chaser during the War. At all his amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes a pipe, seldom drinks. On Vara, in Newport, he does calesthenics on deck in pajamas. After breakfast he goes aboard Enterprise, wearing a business suit and a felt hat. to supervise the daily tinkering with the rigging. In the rain he wears a yellow slicker, but often sails the big yacht in shirtsleeves. When there is the slightest imperfection in the way the boat is handled in practice he puts...
...levees at a cost of $90,000,000-and the project is not one-sixth completed. With Secretary Hurley went Mayor Generals Lytle Brown, Chief of Engineers, and Thomas Q. Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp. The War Secretary would begin his 3,000-mi. excursion at Minneapolis aboard a small river boat and cruise rapidly down through the six engineering districts of the Mississippi. Problem No. 1: Should a gft. channel be dug north from St. Louis to Minneapolis? Later on Secretary Hurley was prepared to inspect by airplane the floodways at New Madrid and Bonnet Carre...