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...McLeod, fleet-footed right half back, Captain Merrill Davis, tall and rangy right-end, and versatile Fred Hollingworth, who has been shifted from left half to quarterback this year, are the three remaining regulars who will form the nucleus of the 1937 squad...
Biggest house on the Annapolis grounds, the white glazed-brick quarters of the U. S. Naval Academy's Superintendent have been occupied since 1934 by onetime Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet, David Foote Sellers. Rear Admiral Sellers reaches .the navy's statutory retirement age of 64 next February. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson announced the name of his successor who will move in as Superintendent next Feb. i: Rear Admiral Wilson Brown Jr., now commander of the U. S. fleet's training detachment...
...well-accoutred charger. He had ridden miles, haste-post-haste, to catch the wanderers. He had news. Good news: the Queen would see them; she would help them! Come back to Cordoba. The Queen would sell her jewels that the traveller and his companion might have a fleet to seek a Western passage to the Indies and the far-flung realms of the East...
...devices for safety on the waters. He saw the waterfront of Portland, a city set on an hill, and a commercial center of no mean import, with its huge grain elevators of the Grand Trunk, its docks full of freight steamers of grain and of and lumber, and its fleet of ferryboats plying out to the islands in Casco Bay. It was like a miniature New York...
...government buildings disappeared in the thick smoke of fake bombs, and subject to severe fines was any citizen of Berlin who did not dive like a rabbit into the bombproof shelter nearest him. Black streamers were plastered about liberally to indicate "DESTRUCTION" and afternoon papers spoke of the bombing fleet as "RED." Thus last week German minds were prepared to appreciate a visit by Benito Mussolini to Adolf Hitler, both loud in proclaiming on every occasion that their Fascist-Nazi mission is to save Europe from Communism...