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...would take part on 160 vessels, in 450 planes. Potent newcomers to the Fleet would be the battleship Idaho, just modernized for $14,000,000; the Ranger, first U. S. aircraft carrier built as such from the keel up; five more heavy "treaty" cruisers; destroyers Dewey and Farragut, swiftest blue-water craft ever to join the Navy and first of a long line to replace the obsolescent Wartime destroyers. It was a Fleet, the Navy could not refrain from boasting, which was not only the most powerful ever to fly the Stars-&-Stripes, but in fighting strength second in world...
...stage show this week is downright good fun--an Argentine orchestra which can really make ones bones tickle with its rhythmic offerings is aided by a brace of the swiftest, nimblest dancers yet contributed by South America and by Jimmy Save, a pantomimist with a definite knack...
...that is the annual National Automobile Show. And with just as much eager pride as Kipling's she-wolves, the motormakers awaited the judgment of the buying public. If their models were accepted, they would lope happily in the annual spring running, which everyone expected would be the swiftest in three years. If their models were rejected, they would find the hunting lean...
...catching up as a contemporary historian. His history of Our Times (1900-25) began appearing in 1926. has now reached 1918. This fifth volume, as full as the others of forgotten details for which historians will be grateful and plain readers too. shows the U. S. in its swiftest recent years...
...John Frank lin, rode their own mounts. The others had been invited to ride by horse-owning friends whose silks they wore. Bookmakers found their early favorite in extremely horsey Mrs. "Jock" Whitney, although to make it more of a race she had refrained from entering one of her swiftest mounts. Then it was revealed that beauteous Mrs. "Sonny" Whitney would ride Halcyon, and Mrs. Rigan Mc-Kinney "Pete" Bostwick's Pompeius - both stake-winners. Mrs. "Jock" Whitney was astonished and so were the bookies, who promptly set her down as a 5-to-1 shot, made Pompeius...