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...this intelligence to the Fleet.) Throughout the early '20s U.S. Navy men agitated for first-class carriers, got two of the best when the Lexington and Saratoga were commissioned in 1927. First U.S. ship specifically designed as a carrier was the Ranger, which slid down the ways at Newport News in 1933. Almost all the regular U.S. carriers of today are designed to do around 30 knots, and none in the world is as big as the Lexington and Saratoga. Last week came a report that, in case of war, the U.S. might seize, rebuild and commission the biggest...
Fritz Kreisler is composing a new University of Wisconsin song. Dancer Josephine Baker, the dark-brown toast of Paris, moved to French Morocco for the duration. With the Newport season nearly over, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen spent a night in her new $2,500,000 mansion, registered in town as a permanent resident. Negro Composer Clinton Brewer (Stampede in G Minor), who spent 19 years in a New Jersey prison for killing his wife, and was pardoned last summer because of his music, took up a new career as an arranger for CBS and Count Basic's band. Last week...
Philadelphia had fallen, Independence Hall and all. Industrial New England had been captured; Rhode Island with its naval base at Newport was isolated, though not invaded; the industrial areas of New Jersey and Pennsylvania were cut off from each other and threatened by a new enemy advance. New York and Boston were besieged. Columns were poised along the upper Potomac, threatening Washington. It looked as if the enemy might reach the Mississippi before winter...
Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, ex-sailor, kept the Vanderbilt family in the love news by declaring he was about to elope with Vivian Stokes, Newport's current glamor girl. Twenty-three-year-old Jakie, briefly married two years ago, is the wandering great-great-grandson of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune. Vivian, not quite 18, is scheduled to make a splashy Newport debut next week. Jakie turned up there after a three-month absence, declaring he had: joined Canada's Black Watch; ferried bombers to Britain; air-dueled with Germans. He wore...