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...longer does the hulking Italian liner Rex have to stop at Quarantine for medical inspection since the granting eight months ago of "radio pratique" to certain liners entering New York harbor (TIME. Sept. 6). It stopped there last week, however, to let two moon-faced gentlemen climb down a gangplank to a Coast Guard cutter. The cutter snaked up the river to a Fire Department pier. Here the chubby passengers, Cinema Producer Hal Roach and Dictator's Son Vittorio Mussolini, were transferred to an earnest knot of alien squad members, policemen. State Department and Italian Embassy officials, and rushed...
...returning from a trip to Alaska, Owney trotted up the gangplank of the steamship Victoria, bound for Japan. There, the Emperor decorated him with a medal. Owney continued around the world by way of the Suez Canal and the Azores. All along the way he was met by bigwigs who awarded him medals. In Manhattan he remained only a few hours before he was whisked onto a westbound mail car. When he arrived in Tacoma, Wash., Owney had traveled round the world in 132 days. So in San Francisco, when he somehow got into a bench show with a houseful...
...this week Martin Slisco's waiting had a happy ending. Red tape had finally been cut and down the gangplank of the Aquitania when it docked in Manhattan came dark-eyed Para Krka, ready to be installed as queen of the Koyukuk...
...game between Congressmen and Newshawks. Having waited at the Marines' ball park for 15 minutes in a downpour without seeing any signs of his hosts, he drove down to the dock where the party had remained weatherbound on the steamer which had brought it from Washington. On the gangplank he witnessed the presentation by Senator Tom Connally of a new Texas sombrero to Vice President Garner in restitution for one Mr. Garner lost umpiring the game two years ago. The Vice President livened the party by leading the band...
Boarding his yacht Winchester at Miami, 64-year-old Financier Cornelius Vanderbilt III plummeted 12 ft. into Biscayne Bay when the gangplank slipped...