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...crop of Radcliffe Freshmen and takes pride in his ability to spot the "belles dames" of the Fall Season. Progress is slow at first. The Freshmen stroll through the Square, alone and un-eyed. In a week or two Sughrue is quick to note the presence of an occasional escort. Sughrue swears that he has no personal interest in all these goings-on, but when the same couple begins to appear day after day, he enjoys a certain tingling of satisfaction...
Last week the Columbus passed out of the Gulf of Mexico at Florida's tip, with U. S. destroyers escorting her. Off Charleston, S. C. the U. S. heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa (President Roosevelt's last cruiseship) took up the patrol, to see that no untoward incident occurred in neutral waters. She rode so close to the Columbus that the latter had to carry a night light to avert collision, but no ill befell her until fugitive and escort reached a point 320 mi. northwest of Bermuda. Then the British destroyer Hyperion, which had heard Tuscaloosa's radio...
...British Navy was then embarrassed by the absence of two battle cruisers in the South Atlantic, chasing Admiral Count Spee's squadron. Also unavailable were the battleship King George V, which was in dock for repairs, and the battleships Conqueror and Monarch, which had collided. Assigned to escort the 1914 Canadians were (besides cruisers and destroyers) the antique battleships Glory and Majestic. For the sake of Canadian good will, Admiral Jellicoe grudgingly added the battle cruiser Princess Royal, but only he and the Canadians' commander in chief, Major General E. A. H. Anderson, knew it at the time...
...Hawaiian perfume. To Ridgeley Vermilye of Plainfield, N. J., well back in third place, went a new hat. Meanwhile, 1938 Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier, home from Nassau for Christmas, was seen as usual at Manhattan's La Conga in the morning's early hours. Her current escort is Cartoonist Curtis Arnoux Peters (Peter Arno), twice divorced...
...edge was slightly taken off the tingling realization that we might be ambushed any minute by the complete competence of our escort...