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...Atlantic Ocean last week thrust another puzzle at seafaring man. Over the Georges Banks, where haddock, cod and mackerel run and the seabottom is in many spots but 12 ft. deep, a whirlpool appeared. Whirlpools, whether in the ocean like the anciently famed & feared Maelstrom west of Norway, or in rivers as below Niagara Falls, so far as man has ever known swirl towards a centre...
...Glendon Jr. coaches Columbia, had thought well of his crew but was satisfied to watch the race from the observation train. When it was over, pleased at a result which contradicted rumors that he was too old to function, he entrained with his son for their farm on Cape Cod, where he planned to spend the summer playing checkers...
Last week the U. S. Supreme Court rose for the summer. Chief Justice Hughes prepared to sail for a vacation at Palermo. Justice Holmes returned to his home at Beverly Farms, Mass, to read and rest. Justice Brandeis hurried away to his sum mer cottage at Chatham near Cape Cod. The golf courses about Buena Vista Spring, Pa. drew Justice Butler. Justice Stone waited for warmer weather before going to fish on his own private island near Isle au Haut off the coast of Maine. Justice Sutherland will spend the summer quietly at Burlingame, Calif. Justice Roberts will farm strenuously...
Emulsion Sold. For almost 70 years famed Scott's Emulsion (cod liver oil) has been made by Scott & Bowne Inc. of Bloomfield, N. J. Last week Scott's Emulsion was sold to Harold F. Ritchie of Toronto and F. M. Shoemaker of Elmira, N. Y. The Ritchie-Shoemaker combination already owns the Pompeian facial cream company (bought last year from Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.) and controls International Proprietaries, Ltd., maker of Eno's Fruit Salt, morning-after tonic...
Little is known of Pavlova's private life, she believed so fervently in keeping it to herself. First sight of Pavlova in repose was startling: her legs were so obvious and so overdeveloped in comparison with her frail body. She took cod-liver oil in vain effort to fatten her trunk. As artist she was as jealous as she was confident of first place. As leader of her troupe she was a benevolent martinet. She bossed them sternly in their dance regimen, nursed them through their personal woes. Before every performance, despite her assurance of success and applause...