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...Birth of Venus" shows a curling lock of blonde hair tied with lavender ribbon, balanced against a branch of coral which in turn stands on a block of cork and a cockleshell...
...Sampson steamed from Key West for the blockade of Santiago (TIME, Sept. I), Key West was a bustling harbor, a busy naval station, a bristling fort (Ft. Taylor). Key West had been fortified since 1846, had remained Federal during the Civil War. Southernmost U. S. port, situated on a coral island 60 mi. southwest of the Florida mainland (now joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World War it served as a Naval flyers...
...Williamson has recently been studying the habits of fishes, and collecting specimens of coral in cooperation with the American Museum of Natural History and the Field Museum of Chicago. Some of these specimens weigh from three to four tons, and require careful work with dynamite and cables for their successful salvage...
...marriage with Joyce taught her the last refinements of her peculiar talent: how to spend money. Perhaps that is why, in all her subsequent vicissitudes, she has gratefully kept his name. One week in Manhattan she spent nearly a million dollars. Just shopping. He bought her a house in Coral Gables, Miami, and the neighbors complained of the stink from her monkey house. Said Peggy: "Can I change the direction of the wind...
...explored the Great Barrier Reef, 1,200-mi. coral band fringing northeast Australia, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Leader of the expedition was Dr. C. M. Yonge, Englishman, whose essays on marine science, Vueer Fish, Brentano's has just published ($2.50). Mrs. Harvey, as Dr. Ethel Nicholson Browne, taught biology at Wellesley and Cornell until their marriage in 1916. They live at Princeton, have two sons...