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...Majesty, but the Empire broadcast also included greetings to King George from a dairy farmer in New Zealand, a lumberjack in the Canadian woods, an Army pensioner in London, a tea merchant on his Indian plantation, et al. Sandwiched in were what the announcer called "an eyewitness description of surf bathing at Bondi Beach" in Australia and "the voices of children romping in the botanical gardens at Melbourne...
...front cover) One day last week a bather at Bethany Beach, Del. walked into the surf wearing his wrist watch. The salt water all but ruined the watch but did not harm the bather. For sea baths, sunshine and rest in company with his wife were decidedly good for General Hugh S. Johnson?all the better because, as the watch incident showed, he was still preoccupied with business...
...Sakonnet Point, where rocky capes bracket a two-mile beach, off Brenton's Reef Lightship and the Narragansett shore where curious eddies twist in the shallow surf, there began last week the solemn business of picking a yacht to defend the America's Cup next September. After a week of trials, to be followed by another series in July, a third in August, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee had seen this year's three contenders under sail six times...
...bluish-grey skin was covered with what seemed like fine white hairs. What was left of its head, hung on a 3-ft. neck, looked like a camel's. What was left of its tail looked like a seal's. It was disemboweled. Rolling gently in the surf, its liver stretched out a full...
...biggest fighting ship, the $30,000,000 British battle cruiser Hood. What followed jolted the Highlanders out of their wits. The Hood's davits suddenly swung launches filled with marines over the side. The launches sped into shallow water. Holding their rifles high, the marines jumped into the surf, ran up the beach toward a party of British tars camped in the sandhills. The two parties met in a brawling mass, clubbing and wrestling. The campers, outnumbered, were overpowered, hauled out through the surf and tumbled into the launches. The launches streaked back to the Hood, the turbines churned...