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...Firecrest had no auxiliary engine, but Gerbault almost never accepted a tow in or out of harbor, liking the excitement of closely calculated navigation under sail. From the South Seas he went through Torres Strait across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope, north to St. Helena, to the Cape Verde Islands (where he stayed ten months to write this book), to the Azores, and home again. He had been gone five years, had sailed almost 40,000 miles. Says he: "As the end of my voyage drew nearer a great sadness took possession of me; the cruise...
Theosophists. On Point Loma is the International Headquarters of the vast Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, founded in Manhattan in 1875 by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, long led by the late Katherine Tingley. The late Lyman Judson Gage, San Diego banker, Secretary of the Treasury in the McKinley and Roosevelt Cabinets, was an ardent Point Loma Theosophist. The cult attempts to harmonize with all great faiths, but is deeply colored in its observances and specific modes of thought by Eastern philosophers and prophets. In glass-domed buildings on Point Loma children may attend a Theosophical school. Excellent is the musical...
...expected that she will be received by the Pope and King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena...
...south, likewise form fine harbors for Europe to South America air traffic. Of 22 successful flights across the Atlantic, both north and south, one-half of them have either flown over or stopped at these groups of islands. Still farther south are the British Ascension and St. Helena islands, in a direct line towards Cape Town. Some day an air line may pass that...
Gary Cooper was born in Helena, Mont., but went to grammar school in England. When he was 13 he went back to Helena, attended high school there. One night he was smashed up in an automobile accident and for two years after that his father made him stay on the family ranch. When he got out of Grinnell College he drew cartoons for a Helena newspaper. He went to Los Angeles to be a commercial artist, began to hang around the offices of casting directors. He got parts in a few westerns and after a while his height...