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...Adolf. Because a daughter has just been born to his wife, and because just before that their residence burned to the ground, H. R. H. Crown Prince Olav of Norway sent his "regrets" to Iceland last week by the Norwegian Defense minister who arrived on a panserskibe (coast-defense battleship. In a British naval "barge"-and nothing is quite so spanking-smart and snobbish as a British naval barge-there landed from the Rodney that recently created peer, Baron Marks of Woolwich, an intimate friend of James Ramsay MacDonald who accompanied the Prime Minister to Washington (TIME...
...Naval Science Cruise this year will be taken on the battleship "Wyoming", the flagship of the United States scouting fleet stationed in the Atlantic. This ship will carry members of the Harvard and Northwestern Naval Science units. The cruise leaves Boston on Saturday, June 21, and will take three weeks, returning about July 10. The ship will stop for three days at Fayal, in the island of Horta, in the Azores...
Sued for Divorce. By Jaqueline Lebaudy Sudreau, daughter of the late famed Adventurer Jacques Lebaudy; Roger Sudreau, Paris detective's son. The late Adventurer Lebaudy was a Frenchman who in 1903 made his yacht a battleship, sailed to Africa, "seized" the Sahara Desert, proclaimed himself "Emperor of the Sahara," was exiled by France. He was later slain by his "Empress," onetime Paris actress Marguerite Doliere, at Westbury, L. I., leaving an estate of $4,000,000. "Empress" Lebaudy also is now Mrs. Sudreau, having married the detective. Until recently, both couples sat together at the Cannes, France, baccarat tables...
...Running concurrently with the Lucky-golfer advertisement, a Chesterfield advertisement pictured a grand & glorious battleship, described Chesterfield as "our Navy's" choice. Pointed by the fact that New York was then entertaining the U. S. battle fleet, the Liggett & Myers Co. advertisement represented attention value in a more conservative form...
Naval aircraft in bombing maneuvers used to fly at a safe altitude directly over their target, "lay their eggs," hope for a hit. Rarely were they rewarded. Newer strategy is to dive upon the enemy battleship, release the bombs, pull up sharply?the bomb continuing the path of the dive. Under this terrific strain, wings of an ordinary airplane would crumple like paper...