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Last week the Navy Department changed the numbers of its big V-type submarines to fish names. New names for the V-1 to V-9, in order: Barracuda, Bass, Bonita, Argonaut, Narwhal, Nautilus, Dolphin, Cachalot, Cuttlefish. In the Navy there have already been four Dolphins, two Bonitas, two Nautiluses, one Barracuda, one Narwhal, one Cachalot, one Cuttlefish...
...tiny, graceful, with the mop of gold-bronze hair which always distinguished her. She trouped with "The Four Leamy Ladies," joined Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circuses in 1920. Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope, swinging her body over her shoulder while hanging 50 ft. from the tanbark. Her record: 249 turns. Her first husband was one Clyde Ingalls, her second was Alfredo Cordona, Mexican trapeze artist, leader of the Cordox troupe...
...Lowell House bells differ from ordinary carillons in that they do not conform to any modern musical scale. Tuned to unaccepted pitches, they cannot, strictly speaking, be called a carillon. Experts describe them as "a group of bells". When such chimes are rung, the deep bass bell is kept constantly pealing while the ringer manipulates levers and pulls ropes to ring the remaining bells. This is the work of Adrianoff, of Astoria, Long Island, an American citizen living in this country for 20 years, who will take up his abode in Cambridge...
...advised that public ownership of these lands be extended as fast as possible, that Game Administration & Management be made a profession like Forestry or Agriculture. The Game Conference approved the Leopold committee's plan. It also: adopted a resolution to bring about laws stopping the sale of black bass in the ten states which permit it ; recommended to the Secretary of Agriculture that beginning February 1932 repeating shotguns be restricted to three shots per loading. Gun manufacturers are willing to cooperate. Among famed conservationists at the game conference were Senator Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut, chairman of the Senate...
Special trains ran from Boston. An excursion steamer went out from Yarmouth. The automobiles of country people moved in slow procession along Hesperus Avenue* and Bass Rocks Road. Canadians were betting even money on Bluenose although it looked as though Captain Pine had the best crew. Aboard the Thebaud were Captains Powers, Johnson, Mallock, Sparrow, Prior and Domin-gos-masters all. On a day of white piling seas the two boats put out around the 37-mi. course. Though a 14-knot breeze was blowing, Captain Walters of Bluenose scoffed the idea that the weather was rough. Rough for amateur...