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Wisconsin. Onetime (1918-27) J. S. Senator Irvine Luther Lenroot offered "Lawsonia," the 1,380-acre estate of the late Victor E. Lawson, Chicago publisher. Perquisites: Two houses each with 10 bedrooms; 18-hole golf course; 54-foot motorboat...
...Norfolk, Va., one Walter Winner, fisherman, sighted a sea turtle basking on the surface of the ocean; silenced his motorboat, slipped up behind, leaped to the turtle's shell, seized its head to keep it from diving, rode upon its back until, tired, it could be trussed, towed ashore. The turtle weighed 500 pounds...
Ferdinand, a Hohenzollern, gave himself up suddenly to one of the whims characteristic of that House. For no reason at all he ordered a second motorboat to draw alongside, debarked into it with the entire royal party which included onetime Prince Christopher of Greece...
...King, the onetime King, the onetime Prince, braved the possibility of bombs or foul play, stood by in their newly boarded motorboat until several injured and dripping royal servants were rescued from the sinking launch...
...racing motorboat skimmed into the harbor of Nice. Pressmen rushed to greet it and hailed its principal passenger as an escaped turncoat Fascist who would now reveal the truth about Mussolini. ^ They were not disappointed. General Cesare Rossi, formerly head of the Fascist Press Bureau, stepped from the motorboat and told a thrilling tale of his "escape" from Rome by motor car in the dead of night to Genoa, where he was picked up by the motorboat, chartered on behalf of a Paris newspaper which is to print his revelations...