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France established three important air routes last week. A passenger line was started between London and Cannes, pearl of the French Riviera. Another was begun between Southampton and Cherbourg, where the English Channel is generally rough. But most important of all, France began air mail service to South America...
Captain Harold A. Cunningham, the Leviathan's present skipper, is such a man. But when last week, on his very first trip with the Leviathan since the War, his first trip as Commodore of the U. S. Lines, he ran his ship aground on Brambles Bank in Southampton Water, he was too good a sport and too proud a sailor to offer even an old saying for an excuse...
...might have happened to anyone. Brambles Bank almost completely blocks the Southampton channel off Cowes. It was only a minor accident and the Leviathan was afloat again in two hours, when the tide rose. But Commodore Cunningham tugged his cap down over the face that has caused him to be called "Handsome Harry," in grim mortification...
...season they entertain with as lavish hospitality at the other London house, Mondalfro,* or at their great estate, Melchet Court, a few miles northwest of Southampton. Lady Mond forebore her many social activities during the War; accomplished much alleviation of suffering, for which she was created (in 1920) Dame Commander of the British Empire...
...spruce countenance, small but with a precise magnificence in its well-brushed and steel-grey beard. It reminded them of a someone they knew, some face they had often seen before. When they perused the caption, Charles Evans Hughes' prize-winning Schnauzer, with Miss Christine Charles at the Southampton Dog Show, they began to snicker. While it was possible (if unlikely) that famed Charles Evans Hughes had turned dog fancier, it was an inconceivable as well as an impudent coincidence that the dog 'should bear so exact a facial resemblance to his master. Yet there...