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...also a commander in the Naval Reserve. He was ordered to cut short the cruise, cancel the stop at Port-au-Prince, cut the stop at Havana from 48 hours to one (presumably to let former King Carol of Rumania and Playmate Lupescu disembark), put in at Newport News, Va. for refitting. The spume under America's forefoot widened and whitened as she picked up her feet and shook herself out of her cruise pace. On radio and telephone Giles Stedman and U.S. Lines got the Navy to agree to let him drop his 250 passengers at New York...
Bowling along through Walpole, Mass. early one morning on his way to the Newport, R.I. naval training station, hard-driving Ensign Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lost control of his new sedan as a front tire blew, sent it slithering, turtle-turning into a roadside embankment. His injuries: bruises and lacerations about the head and face...
...West lay, U. S. editors dusted off their scare type. They hauled out foggy old pictures of the merchant U-boat Deutschland nosing into Baltimore harbor in July 1916, with its cargo of dyestuffs; remembered the story of the U-53, Lieut. Hans Rose commander, putting right into Newport, R. I. in October of the same year, dropping anchor smack alongside the U. S. submarine D-2 long enough for Lieut. Rose to go ashore and mail a letter to the German Ambassador in Washington; echoed the panic of May 1918, when two of the newest German submarines appeared...
Divorced. Maria Zimbalist Goelet, 25, daughter of Violinist-Composer and new Curtis Institute Director Efrem Zimbalist and of oldtime Opera Singer Alma Gluck; and Ogden Goelet, 33, Newport and Manhattan socialite, amateur pianist; after three years' marriage; in Reno...
...hairs which drifted from Liszt's white mane to the collar of his morning coat. Morris Bagby heard Brahms play the piano, "as though he had ten thumbs." When Pianist Bagby returned to the U. S., he was invited by Julia Ward Howe to read a paper at Newport's Town and Country Club. Mrs. Howe's daughter advised Mr. Bagby to make his paper into a lecture. The Bagby lectures, with piano accompaniment, turned into plushy concerts...