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...Southern Cross used to be one of the biggest privately owned yachts in the world. Sleek, white and splendidly appointed inside, as long as a destroyer and a lot wider, she used to carry a crew of 315. Last week the Southern Cross was tied up tight to a pier in Veracruz. Her owner, Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, No. 1 tycoon of Sweden, had given it to the Government of Mexico. If he had not done so, the Mexican Government might have taken it anyway. Quite clearly, Mexico did not want Axel Wenner-Gren to make personal...
...days before he left for San Juan, Tom Hennings married Mrs. Josephine Halpin, a St. Louis radio announcer who specialized in "the woman's angle." Tom and Josephine Hennings were more than merely decorative. For dreamy, reform-minded Rex Tugwell, extrovert Tom Hennings made an ideal trouble shooter. Sleek Mrs. Hennings, used to a busy life, poured her bubbling energy into civilian defense, which was headed by determined, energetic Mrs. Tugwell. The two ladies did not get along well...
...Axis submarine menace on the Gulf, Caribbean and Atlantic coasts. On Miami's Pier 2 Navy men swarmed through a quarter-mile length of offices and warehouses. They pored over textbooks on gunnery, enemy ship and plane recognition, seamanship, navigation. They raced over the sea in fast, sleek boats. These were the men of PC-Patrol Craft...
...other hand, the slick, sleek, swallow-swift destroyers (DDs) are necessarily shaped and molded, crammed like a clock with delicate precision parts. Cost of a modern destroyer: $7,500,000, five times the cost of a Liberty ship...
University of Kansas. Bane of Kansas farmers, who call it the "country club," K.U. started off the school year with its usual pastimes of dancing, beering and cruising on Mount Oread in sleek convertible coupes. Since Dec. 7, collegiate life has grown earnest. With 10% of K.U.'s male students already enlisted or drafted, Navy "V" classes and R.O.T.C. have been packed. Biggest new academic course is "The World At War" (365 students...