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Principal requirements for the ancient ceremony of launching a naval vessel are a bunting-draped platform, a bottle of champagne, an attractive female somehow connected with the ship and a crowd of several hundred to cheer as the craft slips into the water...
...granddaughter of Lieut. Nathaniel Fanning, Revolutionary naval hero dressed in her smartest clothes, journeyed to a Manhattan pier and waited to be ferried to Staten Island on an official tug. At the same time more than 250 invited guests made their way to the shipyard, where they expected to cheer Miss Marsh as she proudly blurted out the name of her illustrious ancestor and splintered the champagne bottle against the grey steel prow...
...Juliana is coming with her fiancé," murmured the stolidly joyous Dutch who had just learned of their Crown Princess' engagement (TIME, Sept. 14). A car was sighted whizzing toward the Palace and out boomed the royal Dutch cheer: "Hold the Sea! Hold...
...front steps. Ample Crown Princess Juliana climbed from the car. The two splendid women effusively embraced. And out from behind the wheel slipped a slender young man with large tortoise-shell spectacles to be kissed in his turn and greeted as "Dear Benno!" Huskily the crowd continued to cheer "Hold the Sea! Hold...
...Landon's audience of some 20,000 -10,000 less than were expected-listened to his best speech attentively but with no loud enthusiasm. The only really lusty cheer went up when the nominee lapsed into slang to condemn the slapdash Revenue Act of 1936. That his tax blast at the New Deal was no dud, however, became politically plain as potent Democrats rushed forward to dispute, deny and denounce his criticism...