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Late last week, exactly five days after Secretary of State Cordell Hull had categorically denied that there was any written or implied agreement of any sort between the British and U. S. fleets (TIME, Feb. 14), three modern U. S. cruisers, Trenton, Milwaukee and Memphis, steamed into narrow Singapore Strait and dropped anchor to the boom of welcoming salutes from British shore batteries...
Waiter Marlowe found it hard to get used to the poor wages and strait-jacket discipline of English waiters, but harder to stomach the double-dyed snobbery of his fellows, the hyper-finickiness of aged guests. He was mighty glad to go to sea again. Three months after her maiden voyage he made a trip on the Queen Mary. It was his hardest job. Eighteen-hour shifts, plus the teeth-rattling vibration in crew quarters directly over the propellers, made him pine for land once more...
...century, and a few gags, all mothered and murmured by Miss West. Typical examples: Q. "You mean he made love to you?'' A. "Well, he went through all the emotions. . . ." "Keep a diary and some day it'll keep you. . . ." "She's not as strait-laced as she's laced...
...route from Kobe to Manila, steaming down the rock-strewn coast of Formosa to avoid the Japanese-controlled war zone in Taiwan Strait, the Dollar Line's 21,936-ton President Hoover grounded last week a few hundred yards off Japan's Hoishoto Island 500 miles north of Manila. There, with 1,000 passengers and crew safely ashore and on other ships, the $8,000,000 liner was slowly being battered to pieces...
...ranking bestsellers, This Is My Story is told without literary pretensions. Several cuts above her columnist style, but with the familiar homely, philosophical asides, This Is My Story traces Mrs. Roosevelt's successful struggle to achieve self-sufficiency, a social conscience, against the heavy inhibitions of a strait-laced socialite environment, awkwardness, homeliness, family cares, fears ranging from burglars to not being able to have babies. Not entirely because of conscious tact, but also, the reader gathers, because her victory was won independently of her strongwilled, busy husband does Mrs. Roosevelt's story portray...