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Life Is Real. In Washington, a patent was awarded to Charles T. Jacobs for a device that keeps the ice in a cocktail shaker from diluting the "dividend." In Des Moines, the Iowa legislature voted to protect ladies in sailboats from getting splashed by making it unlawful for a motorboat to pass a sailboat to the windward...
Beautifully blonde Madeleine Carroll, who gave up the cinema for Sterling Hayden, who gave up the cinema to live on his sailboat, went to work for the United Seamen's Service as director of entertainment for all the merchant mariners' clubs and rest homes. Her office hours in Manhattan: 9 to 5 every day. Hayden is now master of a schooner carrying war cargoes. Ace Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, St. Louis baseball fan, was ordered by her operatic coach to stay away from all the World Series games to keep her from ruining her voice by cheering...
Clanking over the rolling plain at 25 to 30 miles an hour, the tank has the motion of a small sailboat in choppy water. Every sudden encounter with a ditch or an arroyo knocks the crew against the steel walls, making them momentarily glad of their thick, hot helmets, which otherwise are instruments of torture in a desert that is on the average 10° hotter than Egypt...
From Java she limped to Ceylon, tacking like a sailboat, and from Trincomalee to Capetown, choosing the shorter, safe laps of the long way round the world. Still shipping water, the Marblehead got home last week. This week her Captain, shy, soft-spoken Arthur G. Robinson, watched men swarming over her, dragging pipes, riveting, hammering below decks. Home from hell, the Marblehead was being reconditioned, for she might have to go into hell again...
...Since most good jade carving is fairly modern, Gump's specialty plays only a small part in the show. But privileged visitors could also see Gump's famed Jade Room, which has goddesses, screens, rings, roosters, bowls of flowers in different colors of jade, a translucent green sailboat on a yellow jade river...