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...their crests above the observer and their troughs yawning below, they are likely to look twice as big as they really are. Consequently mariners and seasoned ocean travelers were last week discussing excitedly the carefully documented measurements of prodigious waves in the Pacific reported by Lieut.-Commander Ross Palmer Whitemarsh in U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings for August...
Bound from Manila to San Diego last year, Commander Whitemarsh found his 477-ft. navy tanker Ramapo wallowing up & down the slopes of waves the like of which he had never seen. As the speeding giants overtook him one after another, he stationed observers in various places, got out his cinecamera. While the Ramapo was borne up a windward slope, an officer on the bridge marked the top of the following wave by a point on the mast. To err on the side of caution, the crest was assumed to be on his horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably...
Married. Nona McAcloo Martin, 19, granddaughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; and Mahlon Kline Jordan, 21, Philadelphia socialite; in Whitemarsh. Pa. Senator McAdoo flew from Washington to give the bride away, arrived 15 minutes late, had to sit in a rear pew while the bride's stepfather, Clayton Platt Jr.. substituted...
...seasonal present to its readers, that elegant monthly The Sportsman issued an elegant supplement, "Fox Hunting Formalities," by J. Stanley Reeve, seasoned and punctilious sportsman of Haverford, Pa. Member of the Radnor and Whitemarsh Valley Hunt Clubs, second-cousin-in-law of the late Theodore Roosevelt and of the late Poetess Amy Lowell, J. Stanley Reeve has been called (last year by Town & Country) "The leading fox hunter of the leading fox hunting city in the country." Except for a few weeks many years ago when he substituted at Radnor he has never been a master of foxhounds...
After the 18 holes at Philmont, Barnes was 5 up; 18 holes next day at the neighboring Whitemarsh Club gave him a lead of 4 more; a final 36 over the Columbia Course at Washington, D. C., and he had the match?12 up. Loser MacFarlane, natty as ever, had played pretty bad golf. Barnes had been better; in fact, he had made a great many holes...