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...time drew near for Roosevelt-hating Columnist Westbrook Pegler to say farewell to Scripps-Howard and hello to Hearst (TIME, Aug. 28), he became curiously engrossed in matters which seemed far removed from his everyday peeves. His mind's eye filled with tall clipper ships crowding on sail on the China run, with silks and sandalwood and opium, gongs and the firebreath of dragons. In New York and Boston libraries he delved long in old tomes: Lawrence Kearny, Sailor Diplomat; The Clipper Ship Era; The Opium Trade; The Opium Clipper. Could Peg be softening up, seeking escape from...
...Make the Wounded Forget. Hospital ships, incongruous in the midst of heavy artillery, machine-gun fire and blackouts, are painted spotless white; a broad green band around the ship has large red crosses superimposed. They sail through the South Seas brilliantly illuminated and they even show movies on deck at night. They may not even carry mail or any kind of supplies...
...Germans fought back savagely with heavy coast-defense guns, field artillery and multiple-barreled Nebelwerfers, whose incendiary rocket projectiles sail through the air with an unearthly noise, described by N.Y. Timesman Harold Denny as "something like a titanic horse whinnying, or a gigantic aching creak...
...invasion fleet were some 300 private boats of from 275 to 3,500-ton capacity which had to be loaded long before Dday, tagged for specific landing areas and kept ready to sail. There had to be a loading-priority plan so that supplies could be unloaded as needed in those first critical and tumultuous hours...
Clarence Mackay would not give his consent to Ellin's marrying Berlin. On New Year's Eve, 1925, Berlin admitted defeat and, after pouring his passion into All Alone, prepared to sail for Europe. Then Ellin agreed to marry him despite her art-collecting, opera-patronizing, horse-racing parent. She ran away with the most popular U.S. songwriter since Stephen Foster. Clarence Mackay disinherited her from the fortune that had once been counted in the tens of millions, did not forgive the Irving Berlins until his own marriage (his second) to Opera Singer Anna Case...