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Emmy Göring on the other hand says she likes "fine sewing" and "a good thick Hamburg fog." After lunch the General, arm in arm with the Colonel, led him to the basement to meet the lion cub. When Lindbergh patted the cub without flinching, he was rewarded with an invitation to go hunting with Premier Göring who is also Germany's Master of the Hunt...
...scandal broke when Chairman Brundage announced last week as the ship docked at Hamburg that Mrs. Jarrett, Olympic backstroke champion, had been dismissed from the team for drinking. Nosy sportswriters announced that her drinking companion at an "all-night party" had been Playwright MacArthur, without his wife. This MacArthur irritably denied from London, saying, "I was at a bar at the other end of the ship...
...train from Hamburg to Berlin Swimmer Jarrett apologized to the Olympic Committee, begged for another chance. Said Chairman Brundage: "It would wreck the American Olympic team." Even a petition drafted by Mrs. Jarrett's teammates asking for her reinstatement failed to budge the Committee. Deprived of her uniform and definitely out of the Games, unhappy Mrs. Jarrett blasted away at the Committee as follows...
...galleys, rowed by slaves, hit 4.5 knots the first hour, 3.5 the next, 2.5 the third as the slaves became exhausted. A ship painted white is 12° cooler than one painted black. World's greatest seaports in tonnage entered and cleared are, in order, Antwerp, New York, Hamburg, London. A ship's consumption of fuel varies as the cube of the speed it attains. Derricks are named for an Elizabethan hangman named Derrick who was the first to use a single-spar gallows. Oldest ensign in use today is the Turkish, dating from...
...last week a native-born U. S. seaman had served more than a year in German concentration camps and prisons without any trial whatever. Seaman Lawrence B. Simpson, 34, was last year dragged off the U. S. liner Manhattan in Hamburg, charged with possessing 500,000 Communist pamphlets. Last July New York City Communists rioted onto the German liner Bremen in protest against Simpson's jailing, while his father mournfully asserted that Son Lawrence was no Communist. Last fortnight the Ministry of Justice transferred Seaman Simpson from camp to Berlin's famed Moabit Prison, changed the charge against...