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High over the ocean came federal bombing planes from the mainland, to zoom down on the rebel fleet anchored at Suda Bay. One bomb landed squarely on the bridge of the Averoff, an explosion that caused howls of dismay in London...
...Five Persons in a Landscape said to be the only miniature ever painted by Jean Antoine Watteau. Prize of the collection is The Armada Jewel, a minuscule painting sent by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis Walsingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for his help in outfitting the English fleet that defeated Spain. The jewel's face bears a gold relief profile bust of the Queen. Inside the reverse side is another portrait of Elizabeth by Nicholas Milliard. On the back is an enamel picture of the Ark, floating safely on a calm...
Nobody has yet been accused of murdering Corpse No. 1, a peculiar feature of the case being that Fleet Street publishers are pestered by a man who insists: "They found the letters F O R D on the brown paper around the torso, didn't they? Well my name is OFFORD and I've been in the white slave game, see? I'm not afraid of Sir Bernard Spilsbury or Scotland Yard. They'll never find out who that woman was, see? And they can't touch me until they identify...
...year. Perhaps the wet windy weather had something to do with it. Or perhaps the crew was somehow at fault. Nevertheless orders are orders and therefore the U.S.S. Macon soared away from her Sunnyvale mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert Vincent ("Doc") Wiley. That grey-haired 43-year-old skipper, who looks a little like a youngish Herbert Hoover, was not feeling his usual cheery self...
...members of Chrysler's versatile Engineering Department, we wish to point out to Nomadic Readers Sharsmith that, for the last three years we have built a special model known to the engineering fraternity as the "High Wheeler, based on the Plymouth fleet model...