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...decided to jump ship. Skipper Carlin ran advance ads in Australian newspapers for a replacement. All he wanted was a strong swimmer who was also a motor mechanic and a radio maintenance man and had enough money to repatriate himself from anywhere enroute. He got a 23-year-old Perth draftsman named Barry Hanley who knew something about small boats...
...Walker recalls the period as "sheer, undiluted bliss." Equally pleased with his prize pupil, "B.B." calls Walker "my favorite biped." In 1935 Walker was appointed fine arts director at the American Academy in Rome; there he married the daughter of British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, the late Earl of Perth. He came home in 1938 to help lay the groundwork for the National Gallery...
Winding up their 57-day trek (of 14,450 miles) about Australia, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh drove out into the countryside from the bustling city of Perth and ate a leisurely picnic lunch. Two days later, leaving in her wake the cacophonous cheers and steam whistles, the Gothic hove westward across the Indian Ocean, bound for the Cocos Islands and Ceylon...
...Perth, Belgium's Davis Cup tennis team defeated India's, five matches to none, won the right to meet the U.S. in the final of the challenge round...
...soon have its own oilfield. West Australian Petroleum Proprietary Ltd., which is 80% owned by Caltex (jointly owned by the Texas Co. and Standard Oil of California) and 20% by the Australian firm Ampol, has just brought in the continent's first producing well 700 miles north of Perth. The news sent stock in Ampol's subsidiary, Ampol Exploration, soaring from $2.02 to $15.12 on the Melbourne exchange...