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...daybreak the White Star liner Olympic, 23-year-old sister ship of the Titanic, picked up faintly the signal of No. 117, set a course for it. Almost seven hours later a horrified shout burst from a lookout. Bells jangled, the four giant screws threshed madly in reverse, seamen rushed to man lifeboats. Carried helplessly forward by its own momentum, the 46,000-ton liner crunched into the little lightship, cut it in two. Four of the lightship's crew of eleven were never found, and three died after being picked up by the Olympic's lifeboats...
...successor has been appointed so far, but it is understood that University Hall officials have been on the lookout for a man to take the place of the retiring dean...
Eddie is leaving this week from New York with his wife and child for a summer vacation in Europe. He expects to tour the continent by automobile and promises to be on the lookout for all the outstanding ball-toters that may be lying around loose. He may even pick up some plays that will fool the Princeton Tiger when that dangerous beast invades the Stadium next fall...
...last week (see above) Premier Doumergue announced: "I returned to office when I was called by President Lebrun and party leaders who said that civil war was about to break out. . . . Civil war risks bringing a yet more horrible thing-foreign invasion." Civil war is the politician's lookout, but foreign invasion is the army's job. Last week General Denain, new Minister of Air, calmly overrode the objections of diplomats against needlessly annoying Italy. and ordered ground broken for a vast air base at Rosidiano, Corsica. Built on the seashore, the new field will serve both land...
...Provincetown, Mass, last week many a sea gull crouched fast in a huge white trap set by God. Through field glasses a Coast Guard lookout watched one try to take off from an ice floe. Vainly it beat the air with its long wings; one webbed foot was frozen fast. Soon the gull gave up, bent its sharp, hooked beak, sawed off the trapped leg and flew away. Other Coast Guardsmen last week found many a thin pinkish gull leg stuck upright...