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Last week Statesman Stimson sailed for home from Southampton aboard S. S. Leviathan. He had spent two full and profitable months of work and play in Europe. Landing in Italy, he had met Benito Mussolini for the first time, talked arms limitation (TIME. July 20). In Paris he had participated in the preliminaries to the London economic conference which he attended as a delegate (TiME. Aug. 3). He had been to Berlin, met President von Hindenburg and Chancellor Briining, departed advising them to "keep a stiff upper lip." At Rogart in Scotland he had rented a farmhouse on the Duke...
Depression's influence on sailing this summer has been slight; on steam and power yachts more noticeable, though with notable exceptions. The new Morgan Corsair, launched in 1930, has crossed the Atlantic six times, once in record time (for steam yachts) to Southampton (7 days, 7 hr.). A dozen or more new yachts have been placed in commission this year; the biggest is Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader's 407-ft. 10 in. Savarona, built in Germany at an estimated cost of $5,000,000. Now being built for Edward F. Hutton at Kiel is a square-rigged...
...House Naval Affairs Committee. Congressman Britten summers at Montauk. He was there to welcome the fleet. So was his good friend Carl Graham Fisher, board chairman of Montauk Beach Development Corp. Mr. Britten had outlined a gay, busy week for the Navy. The hostesses of swank East Hampton and Southampton nearby would entertain the officers at many a bright party. For the men there would be a carnival at more distant Patchogue, where they could race bicycles, pitch horseshoes, swim, or dance in the street. There would be tennis, golf, swimming, baseball; the Gold Cup race for speedboats, and, dear...
...Shipping Board take title to the Leviathan, suggested Mr. Chapman, and he would operate her at his expense on a minimum schedule of five trips a year for five years. Mr. Franklin was willing to keep this floating elephant and send her on seven circuits a year to Southampton for five years. Both offers provided for continuing work on the two new vessels abuilding at Camden, N. J. and for their eventual operation in transatlantic service under the U. S. flag...
...national championship, he is likely to win it, likely to replace Wimbledon Champion (by default) Wood on next year's Davis Cup team. Doeg, stung by his third tournament defeat this season, changed his plans for this week, entered the Meadow Club's invitation tournament at Southampton...