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The flagship of the Lithuanian Navy is a chugging, wallowing armed minesweeper, the President Smetona. Last week Lithuanians were shamefaced and vexed when a pirate ship, the Hassan Birr, which has been terrorizing Baltic seacoast villages for over a month, escaped for the eleventh time, after being sighted, fired at...
†A theorical envelope of the earth's atmosphere, estimated to be 350 miles out. That it exists is the best current explanation for radio static, fading and silent pockets. Radio waves spray out from sending stations. Supposedly some hug the earth on their way to receiving sets; others...
And lack of lustre promptly confesses an imitation to the expert. Less practiced eyes look at the thread holes. When true pearls are drilled, the skin at their poles remains flat and smooth. Imitation pearls are built around this hollow core, which therefore is considerably larger and has perceptible lips...
Governor Byrd's widest claim to fame is his brotherhood with Richard Evelyn Byrd, famed flyer over far poles. Richmond's politico-social renaissance received scarcely a decimal fraction of the nationa publicity attending Commander Byrd': preparations to depart for the South Pole from Los Angeles?preparations which obliged the...
There are poles and polls. To Harry Flood Byrd, a first son, fell the almost feudal duty and honor of taking over Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr.'s position in Virginia politics. The father co-bossed the State with Representative Harry ("Hal") Flood, famed in Wilsonian days as chairman of the...