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...Hood, both of which were last week laid up for repairs and renovation, and the fast, 26,000-ton French battleships Strasbourg and Dunkerque. Moreover, if war caught the Repulse on the wrong side of the Atlantic, a couple of destroyer flotillas would have to hurry over to escort her back. Battleships are too clumsy and slow to fight off attacks from submarines. Destroyers are needed for that purpose...
...Jones" did motor forth, however, without his usual police escort. He paused for a picnic lunch on Bull Run battlefield, was late for tea at his son's colonial cottage a mile from the University of Virginia campus. Faculty members assured him the boy's law study marks were satisfactory...
Flight. Meanwhile, at the first approach of danger, 43-year-old King Zog loaded his 23-year-old wife and newly born son into an Albanian automobile converted into an ambulance and sent them, with escort, over a 160-mile stretch of rough road into neighboring Greece. Lodging in a primitive little inn at Fiorina, across the frontier. Her Majesty through her Hungarian grandmother, Countess D'Estrelle D'Ekna, released an appeal to the world: "I left my husband leading his troops-his poor insignificant little Army-into battle. What could Albania do against such armed might...
...Girls: If your escort gets too drunk and assertive, don't ask him in. "Don't laugh at him when he makes love to you, even though he looks funny...
Brewster & Co., builders of swank automobile bodies, sued Mrs. Blanche J. Parks, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. newspaper publisher, for $600, balance she owed on a $5,000 body for her Rolls-Royce. Mrs. Parks's reason for not paying up: her escort could not sit in the back seat with his topper...