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...retired Admirals Diek, Bachmann, Kresigk, Gerdes. All accompanied Prince Henry at Kiel last week and the Admirals motored out next day to be his house guests at Hem-melmark. There, on his retired estate, Prince Henry, still with chubby pink chops and twinkling, kindly eyes, drank a sailor's toast to "The Navy" with his Admirals in mellow Steinberger*, precious as fluid gold...
Homo is the sailor home from the sea, and with him he has brought decided opinions concerning education, coeducation and floating colleges. Prematurely back in the United States, some weeks before the Ryndam which is bearing four hundred young men and sixty young women on a world cruise dedicated to the advancement of learning former Governor Allen of Kansas has much to say on the subject of his voyage. It was not be avers, an entirely unhappy voyage but it was a stormy one. He is still an upholder of the aquatic university, but he maintains that it needs practical...
...lights were snapped on suddenly one midnight last week, and 48 recent mothers blinked sleepy, startled eyes. Then they huddled bed clothes around themselves, sat up and simpered at Edward of Wales. He, restless, hurried on to visit half a dozen East End dives. At one a sailor, elated with rum, seized Edward's not very strong right hand and pumped it for minutes-shouting "Hold on Prince!" whenever His Royal Highness tried to draw away. At last an equerry hit the fellow a shrewd tap, rescued Edward...
They say Europe is effete. They say nothing can move sophisticated Europe. . . . Last week in the Salle Gaveau (Paris concert hall) a fair-haired little boy in a blue sailor suit put his violin under his chin and played Mozart. When he had finished he smiled simply at the big audience-smiled, and soon went on playing. He did not seem to notice that women were weeping, that men were looking at their waistcoat buttons. .After his last number, he could not help noticing that hats were flying up in the air, that the room was ringing with deafening cheers...
...Pittsburgh factories, modern "go-getters." But the book itself is more interesting than its contents. It is the third in a series called "The American Panorama." The first two, far better books, folklore rather than fantasy, were Run, Sheep, Run and Gypsy Down the Lane. Author Williamson, onetime hobo, sailor, sheepherder, circus hand, newsgatherer, wrestler, linguist, social worker, Harvard student and African explorer, has French, Irish, Norwegian and Welsh blood. Unless this is his autobiography he may be said to have imagination...