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...Reddy." Admiral Leigh is no naval specialist. Admiral Frank Herman Schofield, retired, who preceded him as Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, knew much more about seagoing strategy. Admiral Jehu Valentine Chase, who retired last week, was much better versed in ordnance. But "Reddy" Leigh has the all-around experience of the kind which made Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan a magic name. He was born 62 years ago near the Mississippi delta. An Annapolis graduate, he served aboard a collier, later on a patrol boat, off Cuba during the Spanish War. He sat on the board of inquiry which failed...
...bookshops of Cambridge, are a serious drain on the pockets of most Government students, the total cost, to date, being thirty-three dollars--fourteen the first half-year, nineteen the second. In particular, I call to your notice a required text, "The Theory and Practice of Modern Government," by Herman Finer (The Dial Press. 2 vols. 1932) which sells for the amazing price of twelve dollars, and is not obtainable second-hand. True, there are copies of these in the various libraries; but, to quote from the Government assignment sheet, "members of the course will find it convenient...
...Atlantic off Palm Beach aboard Captain Herman Gray's sloop Orca, President Hoover's luck changed. His first day's catch: three sails (one 7 ft., 8 in.) and a dolphin. The second day he got two more "sails," one of which was barely an inch too short to win him the "diamond button" awarded by the Sailfish Club of Florida for eight-footers...
...Herman Densmore ("Denny") Shute, slim 28-year-old golf professional from Cleveland: his first major tournament: the $10,000 Miami Biltmore Open; with 291, a stroke less than 21-year-old John Revolta of Menominee, Mich.; at Coral Gables, Fla. Day before 19 of the best known entrants, including Gene Sarazen, Walter Hagen, Billy Burke, Horton Smith, announced that, because they were unsatisfied with the Professional Golfers' Association tournament schedule, they had formed an organization to promote more open tournaments, persuade colleges to hire professional golfers as coaches...
Photographic portraits, a thing never attempted before with much success have been raised to a new standard under the camera of such men and women as Doris Ulmann or Herman Lerski of Germany...