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...President returned from rustic Vermont to sylvan White Pine Camp. Aboard his special train, he forcibly but with dignity gave the impression of being displeased with aged M. Clemenceau's French debt comments...
...landed at Kingsdown Beach, beating by two hours the best male record for the Channel, herself the first woman in the world to swim across; when her tug, the Alsace, had taken her around to Dover and the crowd was shouting on the pier-a customs official came aboard. For an hour he kept the whole party waiting while he asked questions. What was her name? Her race? Her age? He turned to the stout, red-faced individual beside her. Would he be good enough to state his profession? "Potztausend!" cried Father Ederle, looking hungrily at the gaunt official...
Last week Colonel Carmi Alderman Thompson, onetime member of the Ohio Gang, now personal researcher for the Big White President, continued his critical observations from aboard the Filipino- financed Bustamente (TIME, July 26, et seq.). Slowly the little steamer pushed through hundreds of emerald islets in a turquoise sea beneath azure heavens-on, on to Cuyo Island, veritable Eden in the Sulu Sea. Col. Thompson, pleased, ambled beneath outlandish cocoanut palms, low luscious mangoes. No phones, newspapers, railroads, trolleys or automobiles marred this hot perfection. Ah, to be a barefoot native! . . . But business pressed. Mr. Thompson reluctantly doffed his white...
...engine room the Diesel droned, in their berths some of the crew already slept, all was well aboard the S-51 as she patroled the Atlantic off Connecticut on that cool September night last fall...
...water, but soon both were sinking. Toward them came then a droning roar, a splash, a gliding swish, and strong hands reaching down to hold their heads above water until a third rescuer, the Quartermaster's launch, sputtered up to take the two gulping, gasping privates aboard...