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...Napier, seaport on the east coast of New Zealand's, North Island, a noon last week was at its usual occupations. Housewives from the hilly suburbs to the North, in town for shopping; children at school; a few people resting in the brick Cathedral of St. John or the well ordered art museum. Freight cars from Wellington, 200 mi. southwest, were on sidings; ships were loading frozen and corned meats for export. It was a normal summer noontime...
Then the earth wobbled; stone buildings fell apart; wooden ones crumpled: Earthquake. A tidal wave tore over the sea wall, sucked the low-lying shore buildings into its wash. Fire broke out, swept over the debris, for scarcely one building remained erect in Napier. News of the disaster spread fast. Wellington rushed doctors, nurses, medical supplies and food by train. By sea New Zealand's two cruisers Dunedin and Diomede sped to help...
Capt. Campbell, quiet, reticent, with regular teeth and a narrow, Mephistophelian face, has spent $100,000 on alterations in Bluebird. It has the same long chassis he drove at Daytona three years ago (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928) but its new 12-cylinder Napier aeroplane engine has been equipped with superchargers that up its horsepower from 920 to 1,450. The Golden Arrow had only 900 h. p. Blue bird's chassis clears the ground by five inches and the wind resistance has been reduced by changes in streamlining. Fins like a plane's elevators will hold down...
...Clarence Napier Bruce, Lord Aberdare of Duffryn, who is one of the best racquets players in the world, has never managed to win the Court Tennis Championship of England, but he went after Frank Frazier coolly last week in the Racquet & Tennis Club, Manhattan, for the U.S. title. More experienced, Lord Aberdare out-placed him and Frazier, coming in close to get the Englishman's cut-shots, netted repeatedly. After being set-point three times, Lord Aberdare won the first set 6-3, took the next quickly, then began to net shots on his own forehand. But Frazier...
...near that of Packard Co.'s mightiest, a 24-cylinder X-type engine, producing 1,250 h. p. No airplane engine was known to be more powerful. The Rolls-Royce engine was of the W-type, better known as Broad Arrow, a conventional British design used in the Napier engine to whoop Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave in his queer record-breaking motorcar over the sands at Daytona Beach at 231 m. p. h. last year...