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...policy. Spry and trim, he belies his 61 years, but the seams in his face are eloquent of years at sea. Navy men who admire his prodigious physical endurance swear that they are not exaggerating when they tell how he once stayed on his bridge for six weeks during fleet maneuvers, relaxing only to take short catnaps. When he takes over his new office he will be no stranger to Washington. He maintains a residence there, has gone there whenever his duties would permit. In Washington he is not active socially but he likes to go for drink and chit...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Donald Kelly, 65, Naval Aide to King Edward VIII, who rose from a cadet at 13 to first lieutenant in the Boer War, Fourth Sea Lord of the Admiralty in 1924, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet in 1931; in London. When Atlantic Fleet sailors rebelled at pay-cuts in 1931, he dashed to Invergordon, quelled mutiny...
...first automobiles to reach the U. S. from abroad, learned to drive a "steamer," helped devise the first self-starter. In 1913 he landed a job as sales engineer for Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Standard now operates 12,000 trucks and 4,000 cars, second largest fleet in the U. S.* Jack Winchester is manager of the lot. He is also president of the New Jersey Motor Truck Association, vice president of the American Trucking Association. Three years ago, Truckman Winchester conceived the idea of a national truck show, got Standard Oil and several truck makers to sponsor...
...staysail & spanker, Lieutenant de Drambour stayed on the bridge of his ship, while the crates shifted wildly, threatened any instant to sink him. Two days after his 20th birthday he dropped anchor off Sandy Hook, welcomed by the New York World, the New York Yacht Club, the U. S. Fleet, and a spanking good dinner at the Hoffman House...
Died. Sir Edgar Theophilus Britten, 62, Commodore of the Cunard White Star fleet, captain of the Queen Mary; of apoplexy; stricken aboard ship in Southampton, England. Once locked in the Arctic ice for five months, once rammed by a Portuguese man-o'-war during an eleven-month voyage around the Horn, he never lost a life; was made George V's Naval Aide at his knighting...