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...half bad for melodrama is the last act of Hangman's Whip. Not half good enough are the lumbering first two acts. Author Raine, writer of the Saturday Evening Post's "Tugboat Annie" stories, used some of his previous Satevepost material in his present concoction...
Outside the windows of Reporter Miller's "studio" above the San Diego tugboat pier, sea-sophisticated seagulls flap their tapered wings, crick their necks at the oldtimer seated at his desk within. Word has passed along about him for six seagull incubations, egg to egg. He is the book editor and waterfront reporter on the San Diego Sun, Max Miller. When he thinks of how far his waterfront assignments have gotten him he feels slightly gulled himself...
...Garfield Arthur Wood Jr., in whose name Miss America VIII was entered, was not engraved on the tall, gold Harmsworth Cup. Whether or not it will be is up to the Yachtsmen's Association of America which will meet to ponder the problem soon. The crew of a tugboat salvaged Miss England II. Her stern was cracked apart, her deck ripped off but her Rolls-Royce motors were practically undamaged. Her designer, Fred Cooper, declared she could be patched up and. with bigger motors, be made capable of 150 m. p. h. She was taken unrepaired to Toronto...
...office from which the late Publisher Walter Ansel Strong used to look out across the Chicago River, a new occupant, big, sandy-haired and florid, made himself at home last week. Beaming with pride, he alternately jumped to the telephone, plugging one ear against the shriek of tugboat whistles to catch words of congratulation in the other, and strode happily through the flower-decked reception room, the Victor F. Lawson Memorial board room, with its walls and fireplace transplanted from the founder's home. He was Col. William Franklin ("Frank") Knox, president of the thriving Manchester (N. H.) Union...
Last week, the New York Telegram reprinted the photographs of Dr. Eckener on the triumphal tugboat, as a Telegram advertisement. What the Hearst editors had evidently not noticed, what the Telegram had either managed or discovered with journalistic glee, was that Dr. Eckener soon after his return to Lakehurst ("Lake-hearst"), had clenched in his hand a Manhattan newspaper, the name of which was clearly distinguishable in the photographs. Cried the Telegram advertisement: "Note Dr. Eckener's newspaper?The New York Telegram...