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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until this year, most U. S. Cup yachts were built not by single individuals but by syndicates. The Sopwith system is not to build single yachts but to maintain a flotilla. Towing Endeavour I to the U. S. is the motor yacht Viva II, owned by his friend Frederick Segrist, who will help foot Endeavour I's bills. Towing Endeavour II is the Belgian trawler John. Owner Sopwith disapproves of U. S. food, so John is bringing enough British victuals (except fresh vegetables and bread) to last all summer. The two Endeavours, Viva and John are by no means...
...which are sailed in a loo-ft. tank. At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N. J., a 43-in. model of the new Ranger was tried out last autumn against a similar model of Endeavour I. Ranger proved much faster. In the Bath Iron Works, which had previously built only one Cup contender and in which last winter's most important job was five U. S. destroyers (TIME, Nov. 23), Ranger, first America's Cup yacht in 25 years to have an all-steel hull, was whacked together in 140 days. She inherited most of her sails...
...Triforium Gallery whose normal gloom was dispelled by bright new lights, seats were provided for some 300 eyewitness newshawks from all over the world. In their seats at 6:30 a. m. these writers scribbled furiously for eight hours. They dropped their copy in "takes" (installments) down a specially built chute to the Abbey's cellars. There 40 telegraphers tapped it out unceasingly. In newspaper offices all over the globe, editors and press crews stood by at all hours of their differently timed days, holding presses ready to receive the running story as it came...
Cameras. In a specially-built box, twelve feet long, four feet wide, facing the thrones from a corner of the chancel, three still photographers and two movie cameramen were the eyes of the world. The still plates were handed out through a hole to a waiting messenger, sped in cars to the Central News Agency, headquarters for all services, to be flashed over the world by radio. In New York, the Abbey pictures were ready for reproduction within two hours, but were not very clear. Next evening Aviators Dick Merrill & Jack Lambie took off from Southport, Lancashire...
...cheated. Edward Everett Hale was a Boston minister who helped whip up Union sentiment during the Civil War. When politicians like Clement Vallandigham of Ohio began to recommend separatism, Dr. Hale wrote The Man Without a Country as an object lesson. Dr. Hale named his hero Philip Nolan, built around him a story of treason and punishment so detailed that it sounded true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest. At his trial he exclaims, "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States...