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Show Who's News This Week liy Dtlos Wheeler Lovelace i 1 Omohcliiti-il ii:iiUiM-a.- WNU lr.f..,m. NKW YOItK.-On the other hid'; of I'.oiiton frinn the selective North Shore lies Qnlney, the hlp-yard hlp-yard town. It wan there that Capt. . mm Giles Cheu-Merchant Cheu-Merchant Marine t,.r st,.,i;jn Cadet Taufiltl Sea lin t learned Tricks by Master "'";ut tKi.M. Bait taoH, and ship:!. He's never strayed far from the sea liinee. Kven now in his job of commandant of cadets at the United Slates Merchant Marine Ma-rine academy, the Annapolis of the merchant marine, at Kings Point, L. I., he's close to the blue reaches of Lon(! Island sound. The Kings l'olnt school has been turning out officers to run the ships that get supplies to the fighters at the war fronts for a year now, and the cadets have learned navigation and discipline from a master. Captain Stedman was just short of 20 when the United Stales centered World War I and he quickly left his native Quincy for the deck of the coast guard cutter Ossipee. From August, 1917, to January, 1913, he was on the hazardous patrol between Gibraltar and the British Isles. Back In America, he took a few marine engineering courses at Massachusetts Tech and speedily speed-ily returned to sea, this time in the merchant marine. His heroic part in the rescue of 28 men from an Italian freighter in an October gale in 1925 skyrocketed him to fame and the chief officer-ship officer-ship of the then queenly Leviathan. CPRUILLE BRADEN was a hand- some bucko when he found himself him-self a girl behind an aristocratic grille in Chile and courted her for , all the world Our Cuban Envoy ,jke the old Has Considerable Doug Fair- Job, Heft, Family banks 'm seven - reel thriller. Now he is too fat to be romantic, but he has all his youthful assurance as he tells Americans in Cuba not to monkey with the inland in-land s political machinery. Braden is our ambassador to Cuba. It is like him to have a top-flight diplomatic job. So far as the records go he has been second rate only once. At Yale, when he tried football, he was fair to middlin' but no more. Elkhorn, Mont., had failed to train him properly cither ci-ther for blocking or rushing. But after he became a graduate mining engineer in 1914 he led the Beld. He was 20 then. A year later he had his charming bride in that southern land of tranquil mornings where "the mountains get out of the map." A few years after he had enough copper and oil to come back and swing against home-grown competition. com-petition. Here he made more money out of rugs, real estate, steam shovels,' shov-els,' and in his early forties could afford to become President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's roving envoy in Latin America. Amer-ica. This took him from a handsome hand-some estate at Riverdale-on-the-Hud-son but the rewards probably compensated. com-pensated. Shortly he was minister to Colombia, then ambassador, and now he and his family are in Havana. Ha-vana. It is a considerable family, and may explain his considerable weight. Five children, plus diplomatic diplo-matic chores, doubtless leave him no time for the handball that usad to sweat his girth down. pOLONEL William Tudor Gardi-' Gardi-' ner has seen plenty of action and encountered plenty of excitement excite-ment in his 51 years, but nothing to nr c jl. a toP n's ex" Maine Folks Are ploit with Justly Proud of Brig. Gen. Colonel Gardiner Maxwell Taylor, which the North African censor now passes on to the public- Outwitting the Germans to confer with Marshal Badoglio in Rome just as our forces were about to invade the Italian coast at Salerno involved all the mechanics of an old fashioned melodrama, melo-drama, and a few new ones, too. The residents of Maine reading read-ing the news throw out their caests a on, tor tne (jammers are Maine folk from way back and have a town named after them. What's more Tudor Gardiner Gar-diner is an ex-governor of theirs, having been elected twice at the head of the Republican ticket, in 1928 and again in 1930. The fishermen and lobster men be tween Boothbay Harbor and Penobscot Pe-nobscot Bay still chuckle at the way he startled them when he went campaigning in a yawl; Failing in with the tide out of a fog to sit atop a fish trap and talk politics. Despite his Maine ancestry, Colonel Colo-nel Gardiner is actually a native of Massachusetts, his father having been a Boston lawyer and suburban Newton claiming him. At Groton young Tudor was football captain and senior prefect, which is way above par with the aristocratic Grot-tics. Grot-tics. At Harvard he won fame at tackle until a badly shattered arm suffered in the Princeton game of 1911, his sophomore year, ended his gridiron career and turned him into a varsity stroke oar. He earned a law degree from Harvard back in 1917. |