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...engagement of Prince George, youngest brother of the Prince of Wales, to Miss Grace Vanderbilt, daughter of General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt of Manhattan, was all but announced when the good ship Rumor sank in the sea of officialdom...
...coup de grace was administered to the New Jersey, which still remained afloat. Three 2,000-lb. bombs from 3,000-ft. altitude effectively disposed of her. One of them made a direct hit. Within six minutes she sank by the stern and the demonstration was finished...
...Gopher, obsolete gunboat, and training ship of the Ninth Naval District, proceeding from Toledo up through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, sank in a northwest gale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. No lives were lost. She was a wooden ship, built in 1871, carrying three 3-pounders...
...doubt his reception of Miss Adams was materially influenced by the recommendations of Sir J. M. Barrie. Although it is not generally known, Barrie sank the larger part of his fortune in a British hospital during the War. By peace time he found himself financially embarrassed. It was then that Miss Adams reconsidered her decision to retire (made on the death of her manager and lifelong friend, Charles Frohman, who went down with the Lusitania ) and trouped as Peter Pan for the better part of two years...
...sealing it when a great explosion shook the ship and she immediately began to list. The Captain rushed to the deck and amid the confusion issued orders to post sentries to repel boarders. There were no boarders, but the forward magazines had exploded and the Maine quickly sank in the waters of the harbor, carrying with her 262 men and two officers...