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...more interested in the atmosphere of the shop, and in the trophies and pictures which hide its walls. The pictures especially are intriguing. They vary all the way from a fading photograph of Harry Cowles, forty-five years ago, when he was a ball-boy at the Newport Casino, to a crystal-clear shot of Champion Beckman Pool '32, in his underwear...
...swift and crushing raids from the air, like the British attack on the Italian Navy at Taranto. Big trouble is that the U. S. Navy has not nearly enough carriers (Britain has seven, Japan eleven). Last week the Navy launched its seventh. Down a greasy way of the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. slid the 20,000-ton Hornet, to be tied up at the fitting-out dock. Typical of the leisurely pace of U. S. defense was the fact that she was launched only six days ahead of the promised date. A little more encouraging...
...Italian opera in Manhattan one night last week. The assorted nationalities sang to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wore, as usual, a hair ribbon; to Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines; to Orlando F. Weber, onetime head of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; to those sterling spinsters of Manhattan and Newport, R. I., the Misses Maude and Edith Wetmore; to yards of silk and satin; to hothouses of orchids, gardenias and camellias; to bushels of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. They also sang to a few hundred plebeian music lovers roosting in the precipitous galleries who had stood in line, some...
...Near Newport, Vt., Lawrence C. Parminter's house straddles the Canadian border. For papering the Canadian wall of the house with undeclared U.S. wallpaper, a Canadian magistrate fined...
...Chandler '41, Portland, Ore.; Allen R. Clark '42, Laconia, N. H.; Clayton J. Clawson ocC, Madera, Calif.; Stuart H. Cowen '42, Coventry, R. I.; John B. Crume '42, Louisville, Ky.; Joan E. de Valpine '43, Kirkwood, Mo.; James J. Doheny '41, Chicago, III.; William H. Drury, Jr. '43, Newport, R. I.; Walter R. Eberlein '43, Shawano, Wis.; William T. Ernst '41, Canton, O.; Sherldan S. Evans '41, Iuka, III.; Howard H. Ezell '42, Sparianburg...