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...Christine" is making good. This week she will christen two more tugboats at the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, N.Y. Conceived to simplify wartime launchings. "Christine" is a new device (a bottle-holding arm on a pivot) that showers the champagne with precision, has not yet (in eight performances) jinxed a ship with an unwetted sponsoring...
With controversy and dissension seething in their ranks, the Board of Editors of the CRIMSON spent last night in chaotic attempts to christen this paper. Individual enthusiasm for many of the hundred-odd names received was a commonplace, but on none of them could a majority agree...
Winner of a scrap-collecting contest for New Mexico schoolchildren was Connie Davis, 13, of Carlsbad. California Shipbuilding Corp. readied the prize: a girl's wrist watch, a chance to christen the Liberty ship Archbishop Lamy. Then someone discovered Connie...
Novelist Margaret Mitchell, who put Atlanta back on the literary map, will christen the cruiser Atlanta, ∙∙Now that President Roosevelt has gone back to the old Thanksgiving, Republican Governor Sumner Sewall has proclaimed the new Thanksgiving for the first time in Maine. ∙∙ An unidentified axman vainly tried to decapitate Sabrina, the bronze nymph for whom 80 generations of Amherst classes have fought one another. ∙∙ Prophet Wilbur Glen Voliva of Zion, Ill. predicted a bad end for the dictators by plunging into a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). ∙∙ Dr. Samuel Harden Church...
Preparation for launching "Little Mermaid of the North Atlantic," the junk built by Juniors David Ewing and Peter Black, swung into high gear last night with the announcement that a Chinese princess will christen the boat and the launching will be preceded by a procession accompanied by a 35 piece oriental band...