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Professor Van Steer delivering the Ingersoll Lecture, said, "there come moments by day and hours by night when each man must unmask and think of his own death...
Died. Philip Wilson Steer, 81, British landscape and portrait painter; in London. A prominent figure in turn-of-the-century art circles in London, he was the first living painter to be given a one-man show in the famed Tate Gallery...
...shell donated last year had a special rudder control using special wire no longer available. It meant an easier job for the cox, who could steer with only one hand...
Under him three men will steer the Army of the future : Air Force - Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap" for happy) Arnold, white-thatched, genial, 55, veteran flyer, ex-juvenile fiction writer; Ground Force -slender, studious Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, 58; Supply -soft-spoken, hard-driving Major General (likely soon to be Lieut. General) Brehon Somervell...
...bridge because of the siren. We looked over the side to see whether the engines were still turning over or whether she was settling. It was a matter of minutes before she started to move forward." The explosion broke the bridge's control of the engine room and steering apparatus, "but pretty soon we were able to steer from the second conning station. . . . We had no compass working and the helmsman steered by the flag-that is, he watched the flag to see which way the wind was blowing." Ensign Lyman and enlisted men tried to fire rockets...