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Abruptly last week all South Africa was startled by the reentrance of huge, lumbering, bald-headed-Judge Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos into Union politics on the issue of the gold standard. Like Governor Roosevelt, Judge Roos has triumphed over an affliction of the legs, dating in his case from...
¶ Dorade, 52-ft. yawl sailed by Olin J. Stephens II & crew of seven: a race from Newport, R. I. to Plymouth, England, in 17 days, 2 hr., 14 min. Shrewd, 22-year-old Skipper Stephens gambled on a northern course, caught following winds most of the way. Partner in...
Schoolgirl reveals an attitude toward love and morals among the very young in the South. Naomi Bradshaw (Joanna Roos) plans to elope with a boy, is thwarted by the same father who spoke the same epigrams in Coquette (Charles Waldron), is sent to boarding school. Miss Barnes advances the theory...
Capt. William Roos, of Pelham Manor, N. Y., owner of Rofa, lived to tell what happened: "The squall caught us with terrific force before we could shorten sail. The mainsail was first to go. It broke off with a great crash about 18 feet from the deck. The 50 feet...
U. S. newspapers made much of the luck of the crew of the Rofa. They said that it was a miracle for another ship to run across her in the middle of the ocean, and that miracles only happen when a woman is skipper. Meanwhile, Mrs. William Roos, 36, experienced...