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Last week a bull blundered into a small antique shop at rustic Fakenham in Norfolk. Within, pricing china, was Her Majesty, white-haired Queen Mary. Eyeing the bull steadily, Queen Mary retreated three paces while clerks coaxed the animal out, without damage...
Thayer 59: John D. Gordon Jr. '30, of Norfolk, Va. (St. George's School) Cum Laude. Now an instructor in English...
...Quantico the 7th Regiment of Marines, Colonel Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams commanding, studied maps of Havana and Santiago, practiced the "occupation and pacification of towns," while awaiting overseas orders. When a formation of six big Navy seaplanes whizzed over Cuba in a non-stop record flight from Norfolk to Panama natives thought U. S. forces had already intervened...
...twin-motored Navy flying boats skittered across the blue waters of Norfolk Harbor one afternoon last week, took off in perfect formation and bored south. Each was manned by two officers, four enlisted men. Each was completely equipped with machine guns and bomb racks. Around the airdrome there was much well-mannered excitement, but all that officials would admit was that Squadron 5F under Lieut.-Commander Donald M. Carpenter was flying to Panama- purely routine. Few hours later the Press, already excited by the naval mobilization in Cuban waters headlined: SIX NAVY PLANES ON MYSTERY HOP. Into the Naval Bureau...
...beginning of last week Franz Hofer, Nazi leader for the Tyrol and Vorarlberg, was a political prisoner in Innsbruck jail. One midnight two men in the grey .Norfolk jackets of the anti-Nazi Heimwehr drove up to the jail with a prisoner handcuffed between them...