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...Panama in search of the enemy. The Blue's eagle-eyed destroyers were in the lead, the Los Angeles overhead and flagship Arkansas in the rear. Fanwise the Blue spread itself out protectively up and down the coast. At sunrise 36 hours later, scouting planes made their first con tact with the Black fleet moving shoreward in two sections. The old Arkansas, with the heat 133° in her engine room, vainly chased three hostile cruisers who shipped out of range at 32 knots. At dusk another heavy Black column was sighted and viciously attacked by light sea craft...
...library has been under the con- trol of Widener Library officials, though the majority of the history books come from the History Reading Room in Boylston Hall. These books will be under the same direction in the fall, but the library for recreational reading will be, as heretofore, in the charge of the Harvard Union Governing Board
Hostess Belle Livingstone of Manhattan's "Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club" (TIME, Nov. 10 et seq.) was taken again to federal court and found guilty of con tempt for having violated a personal in junction restraining her from liquor dealing. The defeated defense counsel maintained that Miss Livingstone did not own the Club, was there as paid hostess only in order to gather material for her forthcoming work, With Livingstone in Darkest America. The judge sentenced her to 30 days in Harlem Prison, to which she was conducted by press & police forthwith. One newshawk reported the warden as greeting...
...Terry Barberlit, onetime hobo, circus-pegger, doughboy, sailor, anarchist, con man, all-time sensationalist and wanderer of the world, was 56 and looked older until you got in a fight with him. Terry was resting from his labors by peddling snake oil medicine in country villages when he ran into Ruth, a young garage-owning widow with a viperish tongue. She liked him more than he liked her. She asked him over for a drink. When he left town next day she went with him. Terry had agreed to look after her for a year, because she wanted...
...Beethoven-Brahms program as if completely bewitched by the slight, grey-haired figure, swaying constantly, sometimes singing along in a thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist Joseph Szigeti. Hovering benignly about was tall, handsome Bruno Zirato, onetime personal representative...