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Emerging bravely from that shadow is the latest novel by Professor Vercel, whose Captain Conan in 1934 received the Prix Goncourt. Written in lean, brilliant prose, Salvage rises to a sustained pitch of excitement in telling of the rescue of a Greek cargo steamer by the salvage tug Cyclone, fades again when the rescue is completed midway in the book...
...Behind the scenes flames a speculation whether debonair, urbane, Utopian Rexford Guy Tugwell will be the ace of the braintrusters in President Roosevelt's second Administration as he was in the first. Indications are that he will. . . . Tug-well's star blazes as brightly as ever...
...When the morning chosen for the launching arrived, Miss Cora Arinna Marsh of New London, Conn., great-great-granddaughter of Lieut. Nathaniel Fanning, Revolutionary naval hero dressed in her smartest clothes, journeyed to a Manhattan pier and waited to be ferried to Staten Island on an official tug. At the same time more than 250 invited guests made their way to the shipyard, where they expected to cheer Miss Marsh as she proudly blurted out the name of her illustrious ancestor and splintered the champagne bottle against the grey steel prow...
From a small tug at Pequaming, Mich., stepped vacationing Henry Ford. Straightway he marched to a local dancing school, reeled & minueted with happy moppets for half an hour. For all Pequaming boys & girls he ordered ice cream & cake, chugged off again in the tug...
...opposite shore at the time of her launching (TIME, Oct. 1, 1934) and turning her downstream was performed without incident. Less than half a mile below the shipyard the Clyde bends in a double S. There came the crisis. With an angry crack the stern cable to one tug broke. Before another could be made fast, Queen Mary's bow was out of the channel, moving like a relentless cliff of steel shoreward...