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...Although the Argentine Navy offered to sweep clear a course on the Parana River, the prospect aroused anxiety in British and Argentine sporting publics. Miss England II was the boat in which the late Sir Henry Segrave was killed last year when she hit a floating branch and sank on Lake Windermere (TIME, June 23). Wales got no ride. Last week, with H. R. H. safely attending social functions in Brazil, Kaye Don drove Miss England II up the estuary of the Parana River, three miles of which Government launches had dragged for driftwood. On the last of three trips...
...this ill-fated speedboat the late Sir Henry Segrave raced to Death (TIME, June 23) when Miss England II hit a floating log and sank. Fished out of Lake Windermere she was repaired, shipped to Buenos Aires to race as a feature of the British Empire Trade Exposition. In order that Miss England II should not hit another log and go down with the Prince of Wales aboard, the Argentine Navy offered to sweep the three-mile course on the Parana River free of all driftwood...
...Horse Island. Among the 26 missing from the sealer Viking which sank after an explosion off Horse Island, N. F. last fortnight (TIME, Mar. 23) were a daring young film-maker named Varick Frissell of Manhattan and his photographer, Arthur G. Penrod. Forlorn though the hope that they might still be alive, Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell, last week persuaded famed Pilot Bernt Balchen to fly in search of them, in com-pany with his friend F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow. Through weather nearly impassable, Pilot Balchen pushed a Sikorsky amphibion as far as Corner Brook...
Author of this startling play is the late Hans Chlumberg, an Austrian cavalryman during the War. On the night that Miracle at Verdun opened in Leipzig last October, he sank into unconsciousness, died without knowing of the show's success. The son of a military man, a one-time military student himself, he loathed war, wrote his play in protest against it. The Guild, under Director Herbert J. Biberman, has given Miracle at Verdun a skillful presentation. It is overlong (three hours), lets one down a little at the end. but is a tremendously interesting and audacious piece...
...young and in the U. S. Navy, the U. S. went to war with Spain. Just before Roosevelt rode up San Juan Hill in Cuba, Captain Hobson rode boats around the island. The Spanish fleet cowered in Santiago Harbor. Captain Hobson took command of the coal-carrier Merrimac and sank her at the harbor's entrance in a vain attempt to bottle up the Spanish fleet. Spanish sailors caught Captain Hobson. They courteously offered him a swig of liquor. He refused it, took a gulp of coffee. The Spaniards kept him jailed for a month. Then Spanish-American fighting ended...