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...pocket battleships" which, in case of war, would make ideal commerce raiders. In all the world's navies there are but five ships that could catch and sink a pocket battleship and one of them is the Repulse. The others are the Renown and the Hood, both of which were last week laid up for repairs and renovation, and the fast, 26,000-ton French battleships Strasbourg and Dunkerque. Moreover, if war caught the Repulse on the wrong side of the Atlantic, a couple of destroyer flotillas would have to hurry over to escort her back. Battleships...
What the Crosley dealers saw as he sat there was a sleek, rakish, convertible sedan with tiny wheels, wide doors, a neatly streamlined hood and front end. Designed to sell cheaply, like Crosley radios and refrigerators, to run economically (like Mr. Crosley's Cincinnati Reds), the new four-passenger car has a two-seater companion, a convertible coupè which can also be used as a quarter-ton delivery...
With admission free and festivities commencing at 9 o'clock, the big stag party will feature a starting array of talent plus the additional attraction of free refreshments to be dispensed in Memorial Hall. Drinks donated by Hires, Moxie, and Coca Cola, ice cream from Hood's, and Chiclet chewing gum will be distributed, and all who attend will also be presented with cigarettes, tobacco, and pipes given by Leavitt and Pierce, and by Liggett and Myers...
...most Alpiners, the Rocky Mountains would be more homelike, but the big money still lies on the low slopes of the East. Skiing, however, is perking up in the West. Last weekend, at Government-built Timberline Lodge on Oregon's 11,253-ft. Mt. Hood. 5,000 spectators watched more than 100 top-flight skiers from the U. S., Canada and Europe compete in the season's most important ski competition, the National Championships. From the winners would be picked the U. S. slalom and downhill teams of five men and five women to be sent...
They saw two U. S. youngsters beat the whizzing foreign skiers at their own game. Dartmouth's great Dick Durrance sped down the two-and-a-half-mile Mt. Hood downhill course, ''Hara-kiri Hill," in 3:55.3; raced twice around the wicked slalom turns in the Ski Bowl on neighboring Tom, Dick and Harry Mountain in 2:44.6 for the best combined score of all, open or amateur. By far the best of the women in the combined score was graceful, 26-year-old Betty Woolsey of Connecticut, captain of the women's team...