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...RIDDLE OF JUTLAND - Langhorne Gibson & Vice-Admiral J. E. T. Harper-Coward-McCann...
...might have pointed out, this could hardly be so, since the two battles were one and the same. Like other contemporary mix-ups, however, the action was so far from clean-cut that both sides could claim a victory and both sides did. Eighteen years after the event, Authors Gibson & Harper do their Allied best to prove that England really won. Neutral U. S. readers, however, will still feel that much can be repeated on both sides...
...Authors Gibson & Harper supply an excellent description of the Jutland battle, an enlightening series of pictorial charts. For those still interested in the Jellicoe-Beatty controversy they reiterate the facts, hazard a verdict: both were British seamen...
Charles Dana Gibson, a huge man with a bald head, an eagle beak and a Gladstone collar, has admitted that his Gibson Girl was a composite picture of the three famed Langhorne sisters of Virginia. Sister Irene, Artist Gibson married. Sister Nancy married Lord Astor, now sits in the House of Commons. Sister Nora is the present Mrs. "Lefty" Flynn. The Gibson Man wearing the stiff straw hat and a high collar up to his bulbous chin was a fairly accurate portrait of Richard Harding Davis...
...three years ago it was the fashion to call Charles Dana Gibson the Peter Arno of the 1900's. Few dare hazard a guess of what Artist Arno will be capable...