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...boats crossed the starting line heeling in a brisk wind and it turned out to be the most exciting race of the series. Nereid II of Galveston rammed La Tortue, a French boat, causing Nereid II to be disqualified and Mrs. Judith Bailey-Balken. skipper of La Tortue, to flop into the water. Sparkler II of New Orleans lost its mast. On the Cene, of Seattle, a mainsail halyard parted and the crew repaired it just in time to reach the finish line at sundown. That a skipper in home waters has an immense advantage, any small-boat sailor knows...
Equipped with thick muscles, the suggestion of a paunch and a brisk, business-like walk, ruddy-faced Jack Crawford bears no resemblance whatever to the tall, somewhat languid youths of whom the U. S. first ten is largely composed. For a long time his game, too, failed to resemble theirs in efficiency. An excitable temperament and inability to control his shots held him back. Crawford started to play tennis on his father's 1,200-acre farm at Albury, New South Wales, took it up more seriously when his family moved to Sidney. In 1924, aged 16, he played...
...shrewd, rich Ohio publisher who brought with him the U. S.'s fiscal big guns: sleek Governor George Leslie Harrison of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, owlish U. S. Treasury Adviser Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague (recently Adviser to the Bank of England) and a brisk young Manhattan banker, James Paul Warburg. Letting Secretary Hull stew in his low tariff juice, these U. S. fiscal experts made swift contact with their peers at the British Treasury and in the Bank of England, started conversations to determine at what relative point pound, dollar and franc can and should...
...been something like Sleepers East. Author Nebel cannot command Hammett's sulphurous and suspense-laden style, but he has fitted together a first-rate melodrama, whose plot is more cunningly joined than Grand Hotel's, its suspense and climax better managed. Sleepers East is headed for a brisk trip, with Hollywood one of its way-stations...
...Last week a C. C. N. Y. student named Jacob Itzkowitz appeared before a Brooklyn justice named Charles E. Russell. He wished to reassume the name Bakur which his grandfather had given up to avoid military service.† Justice Russell sternly denied Jacob Itzkowitz's application, launched a brisk denunciation of C. C. N. Y. as a place where the taxpayers, "the orderly and decent element, are educating a bunch of young Communists and Socialists." At once C. C. N. Y.'s president, alumni and friends burst into print, flaying Justice Russell for an impertinent flouter. Later...