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Navy Ahoy. Of recent years, Duke Sam's exclusiveness has begun to fray around the cuffs. Except for the war boom, his company, which controls three golf courses (including Pebble Beach and Cypress Point), two hotels and a beach-sand processing plant, has lost money from 1932 on. When the U.S. Navy took over his famed 400-room Del Monte Hotel as a wartime training center, Duke Sam began to wonder if naval officers would not be a possible mainstay for the new depression he feared. So-why not sell the Navy his Del Monte Hotel...
...Clermont-Ferrand to a brooding château at Lamballe in grey Brittany. Last week, up to the forbidding doors of the château walked a plainclothesman. He walked straight into the revolver of the château's owner, Count Edmé de Vulpian. Into the fray, toting Tommy guns, jumped other secret policemen who had been waiting in the shadows that enveloped the castle. Count Vulpian lowered his revolver and surrendered. A search of his château yielded the blue-bound revolutionary "Plan Bleu." It was found where any reader of conspiratorial fiction knew...
Qualunquist Leader Giannini rose to protest. Communist deputies shouted: "Assassin!" Communist Carlo Farini advanced with clenched fists upon the rightist deputies. He was followed by a strong Communist detachment. Then Pietro Nenni, a follower of the party line, led a sizable Socialist task force into the fray. Inkwells hurtled. Chairs were swung. Fists landed with a satisfying thud on legislative noses. Nearly 200 deputies took part in the brawl. Centrists tried frantically to untangle the Right and the Left...
...basketball fame heads a list of long ball hitters among the Eli yearlings. In commenting on Crimson prospects, Coach Mee Berg said yesterday, "We got lots of men on base but we have trouble getting them in." Berg plans to throw his ace lefthander John Hansen into the fray tomorrow, while standing pat on the rest of the lineup...
...Haven, the Lowell quintet will try to emulate the recent Crimson Varsity performance against the Elis, when they tackle the champion Branford College five. Paul Haskell, Walt Coulson, Dana Bresnahan, Mike Post, and high-scorer Fred Donahoe will carry a nine game Lowell winning streak into the fray...