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...Navy airplanes darted above and below and around the dirigible Los Angeles, like sharks baiting a whale. The guns of the presidential yacht Mayflower boomed a salute. Factory whistles shrieked. Nautical tunes bounded over the waters of the Potomac. The Memphis docked at the Navy Yard. Mrs. Lindbergh went aboard to embrace the son who had quickened the tempo of the world's chronicle since she last...
When Swedish-American liner Stockholm pushed gently into its berth, the hundreds of men and women on the pier stood at attention. Aboard, on the main deck, the Sangsallakapet De Svenske (national chorus of Sweden), otherwise known as the Singing Vikings, of whom there are 52 in all, sang out the Swedish national anthem...
...London, Conn., June 12--After their fast time trial yesterday afternoon on the Thames, Coach E. J. Brown '96 gave the University eight a respite today, permitting the squad to accept the invitation of J. Pierpont Morgan '89 to spend the day aboard his palatial steam yacht, Corsair. Yale's first and second crews are also inactive, taking an excursion as the guests of General W. W. Skiddy on his trim power cruiser, Runabout...
...Anxious, she conferred with Cunard officials who were unable to supply an outside cabin on the short notice given them. At that moment appeared Sir Joseph and Lady Duveen who offered their spacious outside cabin. Sir Joseph Duveen (Art Objects) was insistent. Yet soon a Cunard office boy rushed aboard with information that another suitable cabin had been canceled...
...excitement lapsed a personage strode aboard. He received a round of cheers from 3,000 louts, touts and riffraff, who had gathered to see middleweight boxer Mickey Walker aboard the Berengaria, and supposed that the personage,Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...