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Rockwell Kent, famed black and white artist, boarded a 33-ft. sailing cutter at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, last week. He was Greenland-bound, accompanied by Lucian Gary Jr., the writer's son, and Arthur S. Allen Jr., son of the cutter's owner...
London's tailors had another grievance. After studying the clothes represented in the portraits, the editor of Tailor and Cutter spoke editorially for his trade as follows: "A portrait does not gain power by adding a coat which no self-respecting scarecrow would don. Nothing is added to the effectiveness of the canvas by omitting buttons, ignoring seams and maltreating collars and lapels." Of Artist Augustus John's Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester...
...welcome to Yale physiques like coal heavers. Now he employs physiques like that professionally, and for his private yacht, the T. A. D. Jones, sturdy collier. Last week, off the New Jersey coast, the T. A. D. Jones was fired on, stopped by the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Seneca...
...claimed the I'm Alone was in Body-of-Water Two (10.8 miles off shore) when picked up and pursued by the cutter Walcott. Captain John Thomas Randall of the I'm Alone insisted he was in Body-of-Water Three (14 to 15 miles off shore) when spoken. The Treasury justified its pursuit as "hot and continuous" under the Tariff Act. Great Britain held that such pursuit could only begin within territorial waters (Body-of-Water One), and could not reasonably extend beyond Body-of- Water...
...British penny press blazed with headlines: BRITISH CREW IN IRONS −BRITISH SKIPPER CHALLENGES U.S. CUTTER!−I'LL NOT SURRENDER!−100 SHOTS SINK BRITISH SHIP...