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...will be two speakers, as well as a recital by the Freshman Instrumental Clubs. The speaker of the evening will be Captain Irving Johnson, who will talk on "Around the Horn on a Square-Rigger." Johnson has had a wide experience on the sea, and last year sailed the Shamrock V back to England when she made her record-breaking voyage. It is expected that the other entertainer will be a prestidegitator of no mean repute, although the Chairman of the Smoker committee, R. A. Kidder, Jr. '35 did not officially confirm this rumor. At the Smoker ash trays with...
...national celebrities, apparently never failed to get his man. Hindenburg received him, chatted with him a couple of hours. He had an audience with Mussolini, was photographed shaking hands with Il Duce proving he had been there (see cut). The late Sir Thomas Lipton took him racing on the Shamrock V and he watched King George's Britannia lose to them by a drifting length. Lloyd George drove him 45 miles to catch a train, in one hour flat...
...buried in Glasgow last week, beside his parents in the cemetery known as the Southern Necropolis. Hundreds of humble citizens marched past his coffin and admired the floral offerings. The chancel of grimy St. George's Church was bright as a newly opened Greek restaurant with anchors, shamrocks, lifebuoys. Irish harps and a large model of S. S. Leviathan on which Sir Thomas had traveled so often, in roses, lilies and chrysanthemums. Chief mourners were Sir Thomas's two faithful Singhalese servants, whose names he always insisted were John and Shamrock...
...crest showing two arms crossed, the horny hands clutching a sprig of tea plant, a sprig of coffee plant. All his life Sir Thomas loved ships, owned a steam yacht before he was interested in sailing. He first challenged for the America's Cup in 1899 with Shamrock, followed in 1901, 1903, 1920, 1930 by successive Shamrocks. He never won the Cup. He spent $10,000,000 on these races, was considering another challenge on behalf of the Royal Yacht Squadron, to which he was at last elected...
Head of the syndicate which built and raced the cup-winning Enterprise last year. Skipper Aldrich was her navigator in the trials. He thinks her run against Yankee off Martha's Vineyard was "the greatest race of its kind ever sailed." In her races against Shamrock V. Skipper Vanderbilt sailed Enterprise but the Aldrich pennant, blue border and blue anchor on a white field, flew from her $40,000 mast. A better sailor than ex-Commodore Astor, Commodore Aldrich maintains no lavish steam yacht like the Nourmahal; his Wayfarer is a smaller but serviceable boat. Like ex-Commodore Vanderbilt...