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...finest collection of photographs of illuminated manuscripts in the world. Frick photographers have toured the Pyrenees taking pictures of Romanesque and Gothic paintings made long before Giotto was born. Over 1,000 portraits and miniatures have been photographed in private homes in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Nantucket, Pittsburgh and Bermuda. The library is not too busy to recommend reading lists for ladies' clubs or, for a small fee, to supply publishers, dealers or students with usable photostats of any of its 200,000 photographs...
...only 700 of the Olympic's mail load of 13,108 bags. Captain Binks called it "the worst bloomin' sea I ever saw in 35 years at Quarantine." Unconnected with Captain Binks's retirement was the accident seven months ago in which the Olympic cut the Nantucket Lightship in half, killed seven of her crew (TIME, May 28). To newshawks last week he said he "didn't give a Cape Horn damn" about quitting the sea, later confessed he hated to leave it. Of the future he said: "I shall do just what my wife wants...
...this information is catalogued, but the main computations are derived from the reports of obviously competent and trained observers,--surveyors, trained seamen, coastguardsmen, and the like. Their letters, coming from scattered positions along the coast, notable from Isle au Haute, Me.; Boston Harbor, Nantucket, Nantasket, and Jonesboro, Me.; and towns along the North Shore of Massachusetts supply accurate magnetic compass directions and angles of elevations of the starting and vanishing points of the flight, and a comparison of the size of the body with that of the sun at the time...
Four dashes, repeated for one minute every three minutes, is the radio beacon signal of the lightship that guards dread Nantucket Shoals. The first lightship was stationed off the shoals in 1854. Three years ago Lightship No. 117, a 132-ft. craft equipped with every device science could think of to protect transatlantic shipping, was launched at Charleston, S. C. and took up its rough and lonely post 40 mi. southeast of Nantucket Island...
With the imprisonment of the captors, the Gettle story was the first to sag. Not so the case of June Robles, who all over the U. S. continued to hold a commanding position in the news with the Nantucket lightship disaster, the Chaco War, the drought, the Pennsylvania primary...