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...Havana, went fishing with a Captain Leslie Waggett last week and saw something pink fluttering over the water about three miles off the Jaimanitas Yacht Club. It was a light summer dress tied to an oar and the oar was held by Cinemactor Alexander Kirkland clinging to the keel of an overturned sailboat. With him, without her dress and painfully sunburned, was Actress Ann Harding Bannister with her secretary Marie Lombard. Hysterically they told what had happened and how the boat's skipper, one Majin Alvarez Piedra, had started swimming to shore. Gibbered Miss Harding...
...through the water . . . going at the swimming man, and there was a scream and he was dragged down. We drew ourselves up further on the keel...
...five minutes past twelve when I laid down on my bunk in the outer keel. I happened to be looking up and noticed the No. 7 cell was swishing quite more than usual. While looking at this cell the ship gave a terrific lurch sideways and longitudinal girders 7 & 8 gave way as well as some of the wires. . . . About five or ten seconds before she crashed the lights went out in the keel. I ... heard a noise aft and then water hit my feet...
...instruments alone, Pilot Smith must recover from the spin. He knows from previous experience that what he must do is probably opposite to what his senses tell him. Pilots learn that they cannot "fly by the seat of their pants." On an even keel again he searches for the radio beacon, determines which of the quadrants of the beacon he is in, follows the correct one in until he encounters a small zone of silence. That tells him he is directly over the beacon near the field. That is enough. Completely blind landings are not required. Near perfection after long...
...Paul Wadsworth Chapman outlined a building program on money borrowed from the Shipping Board under the Jones-White Act. The Manhattan was the first transatlantic passenger vessel built under the new program, the first built in the U. S. since 1897. A day less than one year after the keel was laid the vessel was launched, christened Manhattan by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt...