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...because this one was rated as no better than other Oxford crews the people on the banks could hardly credit what they saw. Oxford slid out rowing quickly and smoothly, a half-length ahead in a dozen strokes, a length ahead after the first minute. Past Harrod's wharf and under Hammersmith Bridge Oxford was in front and round the bend into rough water and a wind that thinned the falling drops. Over the flat banks of the Stork, that tiny island past the first bridge, the wind spread whitening fans upstream, and Robert Swartwout, U. S. coxswain...
...Pennington, Tom Patricola, Warner Baxter, Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, George Olsen, J. Harold Murray. They put on a benefit performance-no worse than most of the cinema minstrel shows released recently-this time arranged for the destitute skipper of a showboat. Best shots: a riverboat swinging into a Mississippi wharf; a train racing along the Hudson River...
Before dawn the next morning the Hoover car was cut off at Long Key, a barren palm-studded island 80 miles south of Miami. The President and friends detrained, walked a sandy way to the wharf where lay in spick & span readiness the white seagoing houseboat Saunterer. Its owner, Manhattan Capitalist Jeremiah Milbank, eastern G. O. P. Treasurer during the 1928 campaign, greeted the President, turned the boat over to him, got off. The President's ensign, a blue flag with four white stars around the seal of the U. S., was .broken out, cameras clanked and clicked, President Hoover...
Reason for the Ambrose's name and existence: a fighting Irish wharf-&-dry-dock man of Manhattan named John Wolfe Ambrose harangued for 18 years to get Congress to dredge the approach to New York Harbor...
Bankrupt. The Provincetown Players, discoverers in 1916 of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, when they gave his Bound East for Cardiff in a shack on a wharf in Provincetown, Mass. This winter they moved up from their small Greenwich Village theatre to Broadway. Subscribers' pledges of some $60,000 were not met. Suspected reason: "The stockmarket...