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...Captain Frank Hawks's record, and back in 8 min. more than the Hawks' record. His cause: to arouse interest in "The Crusaders," anti-Prohibition organization of which he is Manhattan chieftain. His plane, a fast Lockheed Altair painted yellow, blue & white, bears on its side the shield of the Crusaders with the legend "Help End Prohibition...
...decisive win in Class A with 72 points, trailed by Andover, 49 1-2 and by Worcester Academy, last year's victors, 31, Brookline High, with 21 3-5 points, was closely pressed in Class B by Lawrence High with 19 points. Watertown High won the victor's shield in Class...
Flying the President's flag (U. S. eagle-&-shield with four white stars on a blue field) from her main truck, the 31,000-ton dreadnaught nosed out into the Atlantic for her first "shakedown" run after two years in drydock being reconditioned. The cocky little destroyer Taylor served as escort. President Hoover had smooth sailing southeastward for four days. He took long naps morning and afternoon, lounged before a wood fire. On deck he played medicine ball, losing one ball overboard. After dinner (for which he dressed) an orchestra played softly, he attended talking cinema shows (Rain or Shine...
...second year in succession the solid gold shield of the Holland Bulb Exporters Association went to Marshall Field for a bulb garden arranged by his able superintendent, George H. Gillies. Flaming tulips lined a green turf path to a stone bench by a mellow brick wall shaded by flowering lilac, rhododendrons, laurel, dogwood...
...water with its tail in the air, has two large bony plates in its mouth instead of teeth, with which it hungrily crushes hardshell crabs.* Potent and numerous are Nassau's habitues. They include: Publisher Nelson Doubleday, Publisher Conde Nast and his editor of Vanity Fair, Frank Crownin-shield. Bankers Thomas W. Lamont and Seward Prosser, Lady Diana Manners. Knowlton L. Ames Jr. of Chicago is not only a visitor but co-owner of the quaint Nassau Guardian, one of the world's few newspapers to be composed on inverted tombstones from old graveyards. Publisher Ames...