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...window wide. "I am going to count three," said he with his eye on the second hand. "After the third count listen, listen for all you're worth!" One, two, three-straining ears caught from far away, from a battlefield on the other side of the English channel, a faint sound pitched awesomely deep. "That, gentlemen," said the Prime Minister, "was Hill No. 60. Within a few minutes I think we shall have it." Captured twice by Germans, thrice by Britons, famed Hill No. 60, scene of the bitterest fighting in the Ypres Salient, was sapped and mined before...
...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, and the Le Boeuf Spillway...
...Edmond Cecil Harmsworth, handed her a contract for all her writings, a check for $50,000. Besides Riflewoman Marjorie Foster, other heroines present included Miss Winifred Brown, aviatrix who won the King's Cup for a race round England (TIME, June 14); Ivy Hawke, Channel swimmer; Diana Fishwick, golf champion; Joan Manning Saunders, exhibitor at the Royal Academy when she was only 16; Sylvia Thompson, novelist...
Heroes at the luncheon included Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, first non-stop trans Atlantic aviator, who flew with the late Sir John Alcock from Newfoundland to Ireland eight years before Lindbergh; slightly grizzled Louis Bleriot, first to fly the English Channel, now a millionaire French planemaker; Squadron Leader Augustus H. Orlebar, holder of the world's speed record (357.7 m. p. h.); Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, winner of the Schneider Cup (1929). Wingless heroes included Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin, British tennis player; Robert Cedric Sherriff, insurance broker, author of Journey's End; John L. Baird, inventor...
...Antwerp shipyard last week went three-year-old Princess Josephine Charlotte, daughter of handsome dark-haired Crown Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid, to launch the S.S. Princess Josephine Charlotte, a new Channel steamer for the Dover-Ostend run. Since a champagne bottle would have been, unwieldy for her diminutive Highness, thoughtful company officials tied a bright pink ribbon from the ship's prow to the launching platform. At the appropriate moment Princess Josephine Charlotte toddled to the edge of the platform, snipped the ribbon with a tiny pair of gold-plated scissors. The steamer slid majestically into the water...