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...Olympic in Southampton, England, last week, carpenters went to work on a bunk. They tore out the end of it, made it much longer. They put a row of thick struts under it to make it bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White Star Line took these precautions, not because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought...
...Southampton he said: "I go . . . as a humble missionary of peace...
...Hoover offer Scot MacDonald hesitated no longer. For more than a month he had been unable to say definitely whether or not he would visit President Hoover in Washington to cement the naval bond. Now correspondents were called in, were told that when the Berengaria noses out of Southampton on Sept. 28 she will carry apple-cheeked Miss Ishbel MacDonald and her potent sire...
...Arthur Conan Doyle was sitting in his garden near Southampton, England, with his family (wife, two sons, a daughter), when flames suddenly burst from the roof of his house. For an hour, local firemen, 100 villagers and the Doyles labored to save books and manuscripts. An old part of the house was consumed, a new addition saved. No Sherlock Holmes was needed to detect the cause: a spark on the old dry roof...
...Fred Albert Britten, wife of Illinois' Representative Britten, going abroad on the Leviathan with her husband, was stricken with appendicitis. While the engines were stopped for 52 minutes an operation was performed with five physicians in consultation. Arriving at Southampton, Mrs. Britten's condition was described as ''somewhat improved," but she could not leave the boat...