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...completed building was dedicated and the 200-ft. tower atop its 13 floors was named the Titanic Lighthouse Tower. Last week, on the twenty-fifth April 15 since the disaster, while foghorns mooed mournfully in the harbor below, three white-surpliced ministers observed the annual custom of placing a wreath at the foot of the Institute's time-ball on the tower and reading a service to some 200 hatless seamen...
...hull of the Titanic below, the Mendota lay at rest with her 90 officers & men lining her quarter-deck in full dress while Commander Henry W. Coyle Jr. read the burial service. A rifle squad fired three volleys, and the Mendota steamed away through the spume leaving a lone wreath bobbing on the waves...
...seen. He had started an hour ahead of the rest of the field, stopped after the first ten miles. Winner, when the favorite, John Kelley, weakened two miles from the finish, was a 24-year-old Quebec snowshoe champion named Walter Young, whose prizes were a laurel wreath, a silver cup, a medal...
...Lord Tweedsmuir's press conference, they drove to Fort Myer for a cavalry review (21 guns), laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, were lunched in state by Secretary Hull at the dignified Sulgrave Club, voyaged aboard the Presidential yacht Potomac to Mt. Vernon where they were met by President & Mrs. Roosevelt, saw the tomb and house of Washington, were guests at a state dinner at the White House...
Waikiki Wedding (Paramount) exhibits Bing Crosby crooning pseudo-Hawaiian ditties through a wreath to the accompaniment of innumerable hula-hulas. As Tony Marvin, he is the indolent press-agent of Imperial Pineapple, spends his time lolling on his schooner with a hillbilly called Shad Buggle (Bob Burns). One of Marvin's sporadic publicity ideas is to choose a "Pineapple Girl" who would come to Hawaii for three weeks, syndicate her enthusiastic impressions. Winner is one Georgia Smith (Shirley Ross) of Birch Falls, Iowa, who wants romance not pineapple. Imperial Pineapple orders Tony to provide it. When crooning fails...