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...nautically-minded TIME reader, noting that Joe owned a cruiser, suggested that "when you are on board you are sitting on a valuable source of material for some good fabric designs. Have you ever taken a second glance at mounted red algae? They're beautiful, and they are not limited to the old idea of nautical patterns...
...Admiral Sir William Tennant, went inland to pay courtesy calls in Bogota. An urgent order flashed from Whitehall: proceed without delay to British Honduras. Taking Sir William aboard at historic Cartagena, the Sheffield raced northwest for Belize. Over from Jamaica, by a second order, steamed the 9,850-ton cruiser H.M.S. Devonshire with a detachment of the Gloucestershire Regiment. The occasion for this showing of the flag: "Possible incidents staged by irresponsible elements in neighboring Guatemala...
...modern tapestries will soon be seen in Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. The other 165 will hang in Chicago's Art Institute before being returned to France by cruiser...
...creeping over the New England landscape this winter and obligingly carrying rubbernecks to the heights of mountain ranges. The "Sno-Cat", a cabin cruiser on tractor treads, carries sightseers up the slopes to spectacular panoramas that were once granted only to skiers...
...five admirals aboard, had pushed south to visit the outpost on Deception Island. It made quite a show of power, especially since the Argentine hut on Deception is only 80 feet from the British base. But when the Argentines learned that the British had sent the 8,000-ton cruiser Nigeria from South Africa to the same waters, they cried out that sovereignty could never be settled by "force" and "tonnage...