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...last week 400 Annapolis midshipmen, trim in white, marched off their cruise ships Wyoming and Arkansas, through the streets of Rome, past helmeted Swiss Guards and into the Vatican. In the long, gilded Hall of the Consistory where His Holiness the Pope is accustomed to receive his Cardinals, they knelt on glistening marble. Pius XI mounted his throne to greet them, made a little speech about the sea as a character-builder, passed up & down the hall to confer his blessing. With that His Holiness thought the audience was over. Not so Midshipman Henry L. ("Hank") Muller of Leonia...
...scholarship and conduct. At the end his class standing can be computed with an adding machine. Each academy releases to the Press a complete list of its graduating class, with ranking. West Point hands out its diplomas in that order. As Cadet Richardson of Gibson Island, Md., trim, erect, redhaired, marched forward his classmates jumped up, whooped, hallooed, tossed their caps in the air, heartily thwacked his back as he returned. He was, for the day, the scapegoat on whom all their sins were piled. They knew, too, that "Goat" Richardson had hung on for his commission iong after...
...midwinter orange festival in San Bernardino has its queen. The State's annual lemon show has none. The suntanned girls of San Bernardino who hope and pray to be Queen of the Oranges, will not compete for Queen of the Lemons. But in East Texas last week a trim 17-year-old belle of Jacksonville did not hesitate to come forward and be crowned Queen of the Tomatoes. By proclamation of Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, last week was the first "National"' Tomato Week, sponsored by the East Texas and Jacksonville Chambers of Commerce, blessed by growers, shippers...
...Thomaston, Me., while spectators applauded and workmen cheered. May Gould, 20, daughter of Albert Gould, Boston admiralty lawyer, swooped a bottle of champagne down at the bow of her father's new yacht, missed. Down the greased ways slid the unchristened schooner. Slipping, skating, skidding behind it, trim in starched linen suit and white hat, plunged May Gould into the icy water. One hundred yards out in the bay, the champagne bottle slipped out of her hand. Three hundred yards out, she caught up with the yacht, grabbed her bottle as it bobbed by, smashed...
...followers apiece, the two cults live communally, subscribe to the same credo. They are vegetarians. They wear no garments of black, the color of death. They believe that non-sinners never die, that there is always a King David alive somewhere in the world. Males neither shave nor trim their locks. The Purnell faction operates farms, a hotel, a bakery, a restaurant. Somewhat less piously reactionary, the Dewhirst faction runs a summer resort, an amusement park and the House of David's most famed possession-three bearded baseball teams. Travelling about the country these teams, which include many...