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American Eagle, which hit the water at Stamford, Conn, last week, is Boatbuilder A. E. ("Bill") Luders' first Cup yacht and the most daring twelve ever designed. Other twelves have slightly crowned decks to add strength to the hull; Eagle's is pancake flat to give the crew better footing and to lower the center of gravity so the boat will stand up straighter in strong winds. Most modern twelves have a reverse-sloping transom-an ugly but useful device to save weight-but Luders achieves the same end by tapering deck and hull to a pointed stern...
...CORDELL HULL by Juilus W. Pratt. 2 volumes, 840 pages. Cooper Square...
When President Roosevelt was about to appoint Cordell Hull Secretary of State, five Democratic Senators complained that Hull was too idealistic for the job. The objection was unusual, and F.D.R. laughed it off; but this first biography of Hull shows that the Senators had a point...
...diplomatic historian for 40 years, Julius Pratt has taken a close look at the Hull record. He plowed through the Hull papers in the Library of Congress, the unpublished papers of some of Hull's State Department colleagues. Pratt has written a spare, straightforward narrative that steers shy of judgments. But he does lead a reader to the inescapable conclusion that Hull-an amalgam of idealism, caution, and at times heroic stubbornness-was not up to the job of Secretary of State, even though he held it for nearly twelve years, longer than anyone else...
Confidence of Congress. Hull was a likable Tennessee politician, who became a state circuit judge at 32, served 24 years in Congress and was elected Senator in 1930. Frail but craggy in appearance, he struck people as the solidest of citizens. He looked dignified, even saintlike. He spoke with gravity and with a slight, endearing lisp. When he helped put Roosevelt over at the 1932 Democratic Convention, he was practically assured appointment as Secretary of State. He brought to the job a conviction that all the world's ills could be cured by lowering tariffs and living...