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...Avenue chattered a smoky-tailed vanguard of motorcycle police. Out stepped spectacled Major General Dennis E. Nolan, commander of the 2nd Corps Area and Marshal of the parade. Along came Administrator Whalen, who once was Police Commissioner. Behind them, on the parade's lone official float, rode two symbolic beauties, "Miss Liberty" and "Miss NRA," the Misses Elise & Doris Ford of Brooklyn, Howard Chandler Christie's models. When the head of the parade reached the Public Library at 42nd Street, Grover Whalen and General Nolan joined General Hugh Johnson, Governor Lehman of New York and prognathous, bag-jowled...
...acres of reclaimed land. Here, on the spearhead of Southampton's $65,000,000 port improvement project was a dry dock, built for $6,250,000, fit to bed down a 100,000-ton liner such as does not now exist. Through its gate, liners will float into a huge masonry bed. A sliding caisson will drop behind them. Four 54-in. centrifugal pumps will take out water until the ship sits on the concrete bottom, propped upright so that its hull may be scraped.* Flanking the dry dock are a mile and a half of new quays. Nearby...
...speech agreeing that the dry dock was a good thing. The Lord Bishop of Winchester invoked a blessing. Somebody handed Queen 'Mary a silver chalice in which were mixed several kinds of Empire wines. She spilled the mixed wines over the side, watched them spread oilily among float ing cables of flowers. Southamptonites cheered themselves hysterical. The royal family climbed briskly back into the Victoria & Albert, steamed down Southampton Water toward Cowes...
...take part in the harbor life every Tuesday and Friday morning from the first of June through September, when the launch of the Seaman's Friend Society makes the rounds of the harbor ships and heaves packages of magazines and books aboard each. The launch leaves from a float under the Chariestown end of the Charlestown bridge--the big one that the elevated goes over--and two large signs identify it. There is room for twenty visitors. There is no charge, you simply go down to the float at ten o'clock and get taken aboard...
...upstream-course will be carefully laid out beforehand, with the finish line on the level of the downstream float of the boat house. It has been traveled fastest by J. S. Frame '30, a student in the summer school, who in the last year's regatta put up a time of 58.8 seconds. The best women's time, and there were 45 women in last years total entry of 115, is some 15 seconds behind this record...