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First mate of his sleek white schooner was Son James. The rest of the crew was made up of Sons Franklin Jr. and John, five young friends. In the IPs foamy wake followed a strangely assorted flotilla: the destroyers Ellis and Bernadou: official guardians of the President's safety; the Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga carrying secret service men; the ketch Mary Alice and the powerboat Comanche, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks; the black Gloucesterman Old Glory swarming with news photographers who were never allowed to get within camerashot...
After turning their well-tailored backs upon Red Russians for 15 years, sleek U. S. State Department officials cocked wary ears last week at a breeze of rumors that Josef Stalin in the Kremlin Palace and Franklin Roosevelt in the White House will soon be on formal, friendly diplomatic terms...
...Delegation stragglers who came by the faster S. S. Olympic were led by Vice-Chief Delegate James Middleton Cox, shrewd, rich Ohio publisher who brought with him the U. S.'s fiscal big guns: sleek Governor George Leslie Harrison of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, owlish U. S. Treasury Adviser Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague (recently Adviser to the Bank of England) and a brisk young Manhattan banker, James Paul Warburg. Letting Secretary Hull stew in his low tariff juice, these U. S. fiscal experts made swift contact with their peers at the British Treasury...
Scarcely 24 hours later, during the race, Spangler's sleek Miller speedster bounced over Driver Malcolm Fox's car, went hurtling into the racetrack wall. The impact flung Spangler and his mechanic on their faces against the brick causeway. Crushed beyond recognition, Spangler died in a hospital. His mechanic was killed almost immediately...
...years ago when tall, sleek Richard Leroy Stokes was writing stinging musical criticisms for the late New York Evening World, an idea came to him for an opera. Each time the Metropolitan mounted the work of a U. S. composer, people complained because its subject was not native. The opera Critic Stokes had in mind would be set in colonial Quincy, Mass. Its characters would be Puritans, Cavaliers, Indians; its themes, bigotry and a parson's conflict with his lustful soul. Critic Stokes asked Rochester's Howard Hanson if he would please write the music, submitted his scheme...