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Four o'clock in the morning, seven hours later, Alfonso's car roared down to the docks at Cartagena. Police kept back the crowd. A little group of naval officers stood huddled at the end of the pier in the starlight. The Captain's barge from the cruiser Principe Alfonso rose and fell with the tide. King Alfonso in a brown overcoat and grey felt hat jumped from his car, strode forward nervously puffing a cigaret. Grey-haired Admiral Magaz, onetime member of Dictator Primo de Rivera's cabinet advanced snuffling con solations. Alfonso threw aside his cigaret...
...Pier 5, just north of San Francisco's clock-towered Ferry Building, is the semicircular "landing button" or artificial beach of Air Ferries Ltd., whose red Loening amphibians flash back and forth across the bay between San Francisco and Oakland every 20 min. On the button last week gathered local bigwigs to watch Dry-goodsman Marshal Hale and youthful James Rolph III, son of California's Governor (both directors of Air Ferries), slice a great cake on which stood one birthday candle. One would never have guessed from the exuberance of the affair that Air Ferries...
...week after the closing eastern schedule game with Cornell at Ithaca. On Saturday noon the team will arive in Chicago, where a practice session will be held on the Oak Park High School field. They will leave Chicago, Saturday night, November 22, and will arrive at the Oakland Pier in California on Tuesday morning, November 25. A connecting ferry will take the team to San Francisco, and from this point they will take busses to the Benjamin Franklin Hotel at San Mateo, where they will remain until the game on Saturday...
...illness. He was accompanied by lank Ernest Schelling, a neighbor of his at Morges on Lake Geneva. He wore the characteristic Paderewski dress: ill-fitting overcoat, slouch hat, black sack suit, white waistcoat, low flannel collar, high button boots. A delegation of Polish war veterans met him at the pier. Newspapers reviewed his political past; emblazoned his most casual utterances. On Oct. 21 in Syracuse, Paderewski begins a nationwide tour of 72 concerts. He will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take a three-week vacation in February at his 2,600-acre ranch...
...Chicago, Frank Seidler, 31, went out on a Lake Michigan pier to drown himself, but decided not to when he felt how cold the water was. On his way back to land he fell off the pier. A policeman rescued him. Seidler was grateful...