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Tycoons. While the Bellhops hopped, the major figures of the U.S. delegation pursued more august courses. J. Pierpont Morgan spent part of the week with Parisian vendors of nearly priceless medieval illuminated manuscripts. Tycoons Owen D. Young and his alternate, Thomas Nelson Perkins, sped out to Cherbourg to meet the Olympic and their wives. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament kept up their round of smart dinners, many with artists and litterateurs of the left bank...
...batch of small balloons was the most important baggage of three young Naval officers aboard the Shipping Board liner America when she left Manhattan for Cherbourg last week. All the journey across the Atlantic, and back to Manhattan, the young men are to blow up the balloons with gas and watch them float and bob away to the limit of their tethers. While aloft the balloons will indicate upper air currents. When they are pulled back to the America's deck, self-registering thermometers on some will show upper air temperature variation. All the observations will provide facts...
Before the balloting began, rumors raced from as far away as Cherbourg, France. There, something caused General John Joseph Pershing to race dramatically by motor to catch the S. S. Leviathan. Landing in New York, he refused curtly to discuss politics, seemed annoyed when Mayor Harry Mackay of Philadelphia told newsmen that when he lunched with him in Paris the day before the Leviathan sailed, the general had made no plans for returning to the U. S. The speed, the name, the talk that a Republican was needed to attract the Veterans' vote, combined to make some people suspect...
...vexed, Mr. Thaw told reporters: "This is amazing. I cannot understand it at all. England was fair and square when I was here before, 23 years ago. ... I am a friend of Secretary Mellon. I have wired him. . . ." Later, Mr. Thaw obtained a French visa, left the Aquitania at Cherbourg, motored to Paris. But Secretary Mellon had not helped...
France established three important air routes last week. A passenger line was started between London and Cannes, pearl of the French Riviera. Another was begun between Southampton and Cherbourg, where the English Channel is generally rough. But most important of all, France began air mail service to South America...