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...Treasure Island Was Stocked with Bullion. Here is a sequel that takes the place of its predecessor. It is the tale of how the treasure got to Treasure Island. Not Stevenson, but Smith has written itmple story of an undermanned ship and a force gang. It was the daring plan of his great uncle, the cold, the cool, the calculating Murray, on land the inspired follower of King James, at sea the terrible pirate, Captain Rip-Rap. With young Ormerod is taken his redoubtable friend the Dutchman Peter Corlaer, a veritable Lionel Strongfort for bodily prowess. With them also goes...
...President wrote to the Women's Church Committee on International Good Will, which is sending a Christmas ship to Germany: "The appeal of little children is worldwide, and America has never turned a deaf ear, whether the cry came from Armenia or from the devasted regions of France, from Rumania or from the Far East. Such charity is, I believe, one aspect of the good-will of America to all nations, of our desire to promote durable peace through mutual understanding...
...probably the only human being of my sex aboard the Berengaria without any idea that the Prince of Wales was to be a fellow passenger. As a matter of fact, my aunt, and I, too, did everything possible to avoid taking the ship, because we crossed on her last Summer and wanted to go home by the Majestic. But we could not get decent accommodations on the Majestic, and at the last minute decided to go on the Berengaria...
...Prince also proved his ability as a boxer. In the ship's gymnasium, he had a friendly round or so with the ship's instructor. "You want to shoot that left out sharper, sir," said the instructor. The Prince did, and caught him a good, stiff biff on the jaw. He apologized profusely, but his mentor replied, touching his face tenderly, "I deserved all I got from...
...sighted two black specks. Growing bigger and bigger, the specks became planes, whirred over the Coghland, then over the McFarland, 115 miles westward; then the Charles Ausburn, 115 miles further; then the Lawrence, 126 miles beyond. At last Admiral Magruder on the Richmond sighted two specks and ordered his ship to belch black smoke as a guiding signal. As the planes flew overhead and down to the beflagged moorings in Ice Tickle, the Richmond's siren shrieked a welcome. On a cliff overlooking the mooring place was fixed a brass plate, made on the Richmond, already engraved: "American aviators...