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...installed on a U. S. warship. Mr. Hoover, unpacking, cast a bright eye on his new-bought kit of deep-sea fishing tackle. Watching the lazy Pacific swells some of his first thoughts were about the monster sailfish, amber-jacks, tuna, wahoos, crevalles and yellowtails that live off the coast of Lower California and in the tide-rips from there to Chile...
...eight 10,000-ton cruisers authorized by Congress in 1924 and now abuilding, six had been named-the Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Chester, Chicago, Houston, Augusta. Last week, Secretary Wilbur named a seventh, for obvious reasons, the Northampton. For the eighth ship, a building in Puget Sound, Pacific Coast Republicans urged the name Palo Alto. Iowans protested it should be the West Branch...
...West Coast Trip Planned
Immediately after the Yale game plans were laid for a game on the West Coast for January 1, 1920, and on December 1 a reconditioning of the squad set in. The tilt at Pasadena with Oregon brought all there was of stamina and perseverance in the Harvard men, much effected by the heat. After a hard fought and very closely contested game, in which Harvard's shining light proved to be her later coach. Arnold Horween '20, the Crimson jerseyed fighters left the field 7 to 6 victors...
...standards of sea-lore should have concealed a heart of gold beneath his rough exterior, revealed, by persistent bullying, his petulant nature. Moreover he consumed his soup with a sibilant hiss. Blettsworthy, mimicking him, incurred a wrath that culminated horribly: the ship was wrecked off the stormy Patagonian coast; all hands were escaping by boat; the captain, before clearing, locked his supercargo into the sinking steward-room...