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...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 to discover why the Maine sank. During the War he commanded all U. S. subchasers in European waters. He married his cousin, is childless. Ashore he putters around a flower garden, smacks over a dish of boned shad, keeps a voluminous scrap book. Afloat he is a strict but just disciplinarian. He talks...
...Press. Last week President-elect Roosevelt was apparently determined to keep his hands off the 72nd Congress as it sank deeper and deeper into the mire of legislative futility. He had tried to influence its doings by remote control, only to set off fresh squabbles within his own party and draw a round of criticism in the Press. As President-elect, he found he could not enforce his authority on Congress until he knew what he wanted and what he wanted he had not yet made up his mind...
Since 1929 three other notable French ships have been damaged or destroyed by fire: the luxurious Paris, damaged while lying passengerless and crewless at her pier in Le Havre in August 1929; the ancient Asia which burned and sank while carrying Moslem pilgrims to Mecca (TIME, June 2, 1930); and the brand new Georges Philippar, burned and sunk at sea last May with a loss of 52 lives while returning from her maiden voyage to the Orient. Since French Indo-Chinese Communists had openly threatened the Georges Philippar, suspicion of incendiarism was reasonable, but the French Government, though it investigated...
...stage the drums beat louder. Strings and woodwinds whispered spookily. Jones, tired by running, sank to the ground. His feet hurt him. He pulled off his boots and fanned his toes. His stomach was empty. He hunted vainly for food which he had hidden under a white stone against just such a time? Dwarfish forms like tree-stumps started moving towards him, ha'nts which frightened him so that he drew his pearl-handled revolver, fired at them...
Winthrop and Brooks played the closest game of the day with the victor in doubt to the last minute of play. Winthrop finally sank the winning basket late in the game to beat the Brooks outfit...