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Hopeful of averting such underwater disasters as the S-51 and 54, the Navy Department last week placed orders for the manufacture of 6,300 of the new, successfully tested "lungs" developed jointly by Lieut. C. B. Momsen, Chief Gunner C. L. Tibbals and Frank Hobson, civilian engineer, to help sailors escape from sunken submarines (TIME, Feb. 18). Each of the 2,600 officers and men on submarine duty will be furnished with two or more of the devices...
...alai tournament and cock fights. Finally they took off for Santiago de Cuba, stopping en route at Manzanillo to avoid a squall and because Publisher Patterson liked the name. At Santiago they visited Spanish War battlefields, ate melons, saw the straits where much-kissed Hero Richmond Pearson Hobson sank the Merrimac...
...potent London automobile insurance firm of Hobson, Allfrey & Wheeler announced, last week, that it will no longer write policies covering motor cars hired out by the day to bookmakers, actors, actresses, Jews...
Geoffrey Platt '27, captain of last year's University crew, A. L. Hobson '24, G. H. Perkins '27, J. H. Harwood '27, Oliver Ames '27, and R. H. Miller '30 represent the Crimson in this group. Hobson was on the first crew in 1924, while Harwood rowed No. 3 on the second University last year and Perkins held a Jayvee seat...
...President's sharpest critics agreed that he had showed courage. His best friends, however, said that he would have undermined the G. O. P.'s chief bulwarks if he had done otherwise. They said it was by no means Hobson's choice. Nevertheless, forces were so balanced that none could suspect President Coolidge of departing from the convictions he expressed last year...