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...ceiling was removed from the chateau soon after its purchase, and shipped to New York. When the steamship had docked, the problem of transporting the carved sections to Cambridge presented a number of difficulties. Neither the railroads nor steamship lines cared to handle the valuable thirty-six foot sections...
Last week a steamship from South America docked in Manhattan and certain matters tof fact were learned from a prosaic, weatherbeaten man on crutches who came ashore. He was Lieut. James H. Doolittle, U.S.A., test pilot of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio). Having had no vacation for nine years, he had taken one last May, going down to Chile with a 175-m. p. h. pursuit plane to be first U. S. flyer across the Andes.- Three days after landing in Santiago, he had fallen from a twelve-foot plane-assembling platform and fretted for a month with two broken femurs...
Pilot Cobham, after kissing his wife and child, told them one thing he was particularly glad of: Premier Bruce of Australia had sailed for England by steamship the same day that he, Cobham, had hopped into the air, a month ago. Premier Bruce would dock that day at Marseilles and here was he, Alan Cobham, in spite of a Burmese monsoon, already home again. It spoke well for long distance flying, "from anywhere to anywhere...
...realized that Mr. Pyle was a businessman. Then Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis ace, turned professional, along with other tennis notables. People thought that Mr. Pyle showed acumen. Until last week, however, few knew that Mr. Pyle was likewise a dramatist. The scene was the great dining hall of the steamship Paris, ablaze with lights, aglow with chatter of sporting bigwigs. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, the Peter Pan of Princeton, was, of course, toastmaster. Down the majestic stairway, slowly into the room came Vincent Richards, star, "logical" successor...
Last week was announced a change in Colonel Thompson's proposed itinerary. The emissary has abandoned his proposed three weeks' visit to China, and will now lea,ve Manila on Oct. 6 on the Steamship...