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...herself. Under the terms of the London Naval Treaty, the U. S. was allowed to complete 15 new 10,000-ton cruisers before 1936. First two built were the Pensacola and Salt Lake City. They were fast but scantily armored. Next were turned out six ships in the Augusta class (Chester, Augusta, Chicago, Houston, Louisville, Northhampton). These proved to be heavy rollers, and five developed cracked stern castings. Next class, the Portland and Indianapolis, were modified after construction to rectify their sisters' shortcomings. But even the Indianapolis, on her shakedown cruise three months ago, damaged her light superstructure...
...clerk. The star of the Harrimans being in the ascendant, at 35 he became a vice president of the Merchants National. Meanwhile his uncle had tussled with Hill and his Cousin Anne had married William K. Vanderbilt. Young Joe became a person of at least social consequence. He married Augusta Barney of Jersey City Heights and like his cousins William Averell and Edward Roland Harriman set out to carve himself a career...
From the mainmast of the new 10,000-ton cruiser Augusta flew the three-starred flag of Vice Admiral Frank H. Clark, the Scouting Force's commander. Astern steamed the Navy's newest and best men-o'-war-the heavy cruisers Salt Lake City, Chicago, Chester, Louisville, Northampton, Pensacola. Spread out in the van were 13 destroyers, their needle-like hulls wallowing in the long blue swell, their stacks belching inky smoke. The 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each with fourscore planes on her flat back or in her cavernous belly, completed the procession...
Quietest but most crushing squelch came from the greatest golfer of them all. In Hollywood, whither he went to make some movies after the gala opening of his Augusta National Course (TIME, Jan. 23), Robert Tyre Jones II said with the finality of an old poker player discussing wild deuces: "It might make an interesting game, but it would not be golf...
...Augusta National is a project planned along the lines of the National Golf Links of America, in Long Island's Shinnecock Hills; a links to rank among the world's finest for the use of the country's foremost. Back of the idea was Fielding Wallace, Augusta textile manufacturer who makes "press cloth" out of human hair imported from China. He and his friends formed the holding company to buy a tract of 364 acres, of which the club now uses 192. Memberships-of which Bobby Jones, the club's president, thinks 500 will be plenty...