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Shamrock V for Sir Thomas Lipton. It is a heavy boat, 77 ft. long, "made," said Builder George Nicholson, "to last a quarter of a century, maybe more." Its hull is of mahogany on a steel frame. The deck of the Shamrock IV was only half an inch thick and made of plywood, but you could load bricks on the two-inch planks of the Shamrock V. It will be much less speedy than the graceful boats which raced for the America's cup in the old days and which, with tiny hulls, carried far more sail than modern...
...bell-like top the stack measures twenty feet in diameter. From the top is suspended on a beam a circular platform on which the two workers stand. As the chimney walls are six feet thick, the platform has been made slightly less than eight feet in diameter too narrow to permit a fatal stop on the part of the worker, but with enough room to let the loosened bricks fall through...
There is no prize exhibit in the Havemeyer collection. Outstanding are El Greco's portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Cardinal Fernando Nino de Guevara, a crafty-eyed prelate in thick horn-rimmed spectacles, painted over 300 years ago, just before Inquisitor Fernando burned alive half a hundred heretics in the Toledo market place; Manet's portrait of the redhaired, raffish George Moore; the superb example of Rembrandt's engraving: "Christ Healing the Sick...
...Stella Walsh, grim-faced, Slav-eyed, broadshouldered, thick-thewed, 18 years old: a 220-yd. race around two turns in Madison Square Garden, in 26 1/10 sec. (new world's record for women, indoor and outdoor...
...Oklahoma. Practically everything has." Author Ferber, unmarried, 42, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., of Jewish parents, now lives in Manhattan. A reporter at 17, she worked on the Milwaukee Journal, Chicago Tribune, wrote her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911. Author Ferber has a creamy complexion and thick black hair, is afraid of thunderstorms. She does all her writing on a typewriter. No ad- mirer of the highbrow, says she: "I have long since ceased trying to write better than I can." Other books: Buttered Side Down, Roast Beef Medium, Personality Plus, Emma McChesney & Co., The Girls...