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Wearing an old Etonian tie under his red muffler, Britain's 34-year-old Earl of Kinnoull fretfully paced the deck of the trawler Mino which was anchored olf Southampton last week while customs officials nosed around the ship's hold. His Lordship was all ready to sail to Spain with 100 tons of food and $5,000 to aid Madrid's Radical Government. No hidebound aristocrat is Lord Kinnoull. In 1928 he married the daughter of the late Kate Meyrick, London's "Night Club Queen" who was imprisoned five times for selling unlicensed liquor, bribing...
...toboggan run. As an improvement on snow trains, Saks-Fifth Avenue-which last year installed the first of Manhattan's now numerous indoor department-store ski slides-chartered the S. S. Paris as a "snowboat." Advertisements said it would sail Jan. 16, with a ski-slide on deck, to get skiers to St. Moritz in ten days. Skiing down the side of a skyscraper is unpractical, but John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Radio City did the next best thing by announcing that it would swamp the sunken plaza, which is a tourist restaurant in summer, to make...
...deck of the Indianapolis final farewells took place. Host Justo presented his guest with a poncho made of virgin vicuna wool. The two Presidents exchanged a genuine bear hug. Everyone else was shaken by the hand and touched to the heart. The last that Buenos Aires saw of Franklin Roosevelt he was standing on the bridge as the Indianapolis pulled out into sluggish, shoreless Rio de la Plata, waving a blue and white scarf, the national colors of Argentina...
...diplomatic arrangements which flowered when Franklin Roosevelt last January wrote 20 identical personal notes to his 20 fellow Presidents suggesting the conference which his State Department had arranged. And last week as the S. S. American Legion tied up at Buenos Aires, Messrs. Hull & Welles stood on its deck, acting once more as advance men for Franklin Roosevelt's personal appearance. On the pier a tall professorial man with a long stiff neck and high stiff collar frantically waved his hat. He was their host, Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine Foreign Minister, who 24 hours before had been awarded...
...craft, to be known as the ARD3 (Auxiliary Repair Dock), will be 1,016 ft. long, 165 ft. beam, 75 ft. high from keel to top deck. It will have a streamlined bow like any ordinary ship and steering equipment in the stern, so that it can be towed by one of the auxiliary train at a rate of ten knots. Also in its stern there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will...