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Amid the forest of oil derricks which surrounds Baku, the captain and crew of the S. S. Soviet were tried by the maritime division of the Soviet Supreme Court last week for failing to tow into port a disabled tanker containing over $7,000 worth of the Soviet State...
...explosion aboard the tanker set it afire while being towed by the Soviet in the Caspian Sea. Promptly Captain Krivonosov of the Soviet conferred with his political adviser, the Communist Party official assigned to most Soviet merchant ships. This worthy, Comrade Miguschenko, agreed that even with $7,000 worth of Government oil at stake, the danger of a major explosion aboard the tanker which would flood the sea with blazing oil and perhaps destroy the S. S. Soviet was too great to risk. The only thing to do, the Captain decided, was to cut the tow rope...
...afternoon last week Clark Howell sashayed proudly into the White House offices, with a friend in tow, to see the President. Newshawks gaped as they saw the rotund little Georgian's friend, a scraggle-haired bespectacled man in a white suit, with crimson suspenders visible under his open coat. Into the President's air-cooled office marched the politically-minded publisher of the Atlanta Constitution and his friend. Franklin Roosevelt swung in his chair and, smiling just as he smiles on pauper and potentate, stuck out his hand...
...Black Diamond freighter Black Gull last week gathered at the rail to examine a speck on the horizon. On closer inspection, the speck turned out to be a boat, the size of those usually seen moored at yacht-club landings. To suggestions that he take the tiny craft in tow, rescue her crew, the Black Gull's captain, Leonard Frisco, explained why this was inadvisable. No derelict, the boat was the German yawl Stoertebeker. With five other minuscule vessels, which left Newport a fortnight before, she was bound for Bergen, Norway, in a transatlantic sailing race...
Last month a slender, exuberant blonde of 33 sailed from Manhattan with a gold medal around her neck, a Spanish husband in tow and a contract for three operatic performances at London's historic Covent Garden. Grace Moore had won the medal for her cinema performance in One Night of Love. Her Covent Garden contract was signed because Londoners were ready to buy camp stools, wait in line 24 hours for tickets to see and hear this U. S. singer...