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Other doings at Annapolis during June Week include the annual "Ring Dance" of the second class, and presentation of a U. S. flag to the commander of the company winning regimental honors. In years gone by, the Ring Dance (christening of class rings) and the flag presentation (by a girl chosen by the commander) included kissing. Last year kisses were abolished as not "conducive to dignity." June Week weddings were also ruled out last fortnight by a new regulation forbidding ensigns (after 1933) to marry within two years of graduation. Missouri's Representative John Joseph Cochran last week introduced...
...granted a three-month moratorium. But they chuckled at an example of Ivar Kreuger's shrewdness which auditors stumbled upon in his private office. On the desk was a concealed button which could be pressed by "accidentally" moving a book with his elbow. It caused a dummy telephone to ring. Herr Kreuger could then ask his visitor to leave or could impress him with imaginary conversations with great bankers and statesmen...
...long drawn chuckle, and the water sparkling in the moonlight. The Bourbons have gone, but the Lily remains. Guy Fawkes is dead, but they hunt him out each year in quivering candle light. In 1797 Venice was only a beautiful town when the last Doge Lodovico threw his golden ring into the sea. And the Yard is taken from...
...Atlantic but also she set a speed record from Harbor Grace of 14 hr. 56 min. Advance reports of good weather she found "100% wrong." Ice on the wings forced her down into rain, fog and gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds she met the shore of Northern Ireland, set her ship down on a farm field...
California dust billowed behind a lumbering coach-&-four as it careened into a ring at the W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch at Pomona one afternoon last week. At the reins was Captain William Banning, pioneer stage driver. Beside him on the box was grinning Will Rogers. Inside the coach, holding tight, sat California's cowboy-booted Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. and Cereal Manufacturer Will Keith Kellogg (corn flakes), owner of the ranch. Bands played, a crowd of actors, actresses, ranchers and California citizens great & small cheered as Mr. Kellogg climbed down from the coach...