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...last hospital ship struggling in the Gatun Locks. And up above 234 airplanes would frolic around the Los Angeles. Undoubtedly Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett would be on board the dirigible, would look down upon the 40-mile ribbon, would say: "Ah What a Navy!"† echoing the quarter-deck thought of Admiral Samuel S. Robison who, this year, commands the Navy...
...Lieutenant Conant was one of the most brilliant aviators in the service. He had flown 1,300 hours in 38 different types of airplanes; he had been shot from a catapult; he was one of the first 25 men to operate from the deck of an airplane carrier. The Navy mourned him, remembered that only two months before another courageous aviator, Commander John Rodgers, had crashed to his death in the Delaware River...
Press Welcome. The Chicago Tribune, which has probably printed more accounts of Prince Carol's amours and Queen Marie's alleged philanderings in Bucharest than any other U. S. newspaper, was guilty of the following editorial gaucherie: "[On the Leviathan Queen Marie] will be surrounded by the deck chairs of her old pals, most of whom have beards, and start their sentences with 'Woof.' Nobody not of the court will be allowed to set foot within a ship's length of the queen...
Meeting. A laughing green-clad woman stood upon the Dolphin's deck beside Sir Austen. She was the onetime Ivy Muriel Dundas, his wife - by royal creation a Dame of the British Empire (TIME, Dec. 14). When the purple orchids were handed on board she pinned them bravely upon her green dress. With the orchids came a card: "Benito Mussolini sends his kindest happy greetings to Lady Chamberlain...
...mile of tunnel will run across the river to the Business School from the power plans at the corner of Boylston street and the Parkway, under the deck of the bridge. This passageway will conduct steam heat to the Business buildings during the winter...