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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace ' consolidated Features.-WNU Kelease. XTEW YOEK.-On the other side N of Boston from the selective North Shore lies Quincy the shipyard ship-yard town. ItwasthereGthatCapt. Merchant Marine ter gtedman Cadets Taught Sea first learned . . i . about tides, Tricks by Master tang and ships. He's never strayed far from the sea since. Even now m his job of commandant of cadets at the United States Merchant Marine Ma-rine academy, the Annapolis of the merchant marine, at Kings Point, L 'I he's close to the blue reaches of Long Island sound. The Kings Point 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 States entered World War I and he quickly left his native Quincy for the deck of the coast guard cutter Ossipee. From August, 1917, to January, 1919, 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 n Italian freighter in an October gale in 1925 skyrocketed him to fame and the chief officer-ship officer-ship of the then queenly Leviathan. SPRTJILLE BRADEN was a handsome hand-some bucko when he found himself him-self a girl behind an aristocratic gTille in Chile and courted her for . r- all the world Our Cuban Envoy like the old Has Considerable Doug Fair- Job, Heft, Family banks ' ' 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 island's is-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 either ei-ther for blocking or rushing. But after he became a graduate mining engineer in 1914 he led the field. 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 used to sweat his girth down. QOLONEL William Tudor Gardiner Gardi-ner has seen plenty of action and encountered plenty of excitement excite-ment in his 51 years, but nothing to Maine Folks Are to,p .j18 Fj , ., , , ploit with Justly Proud of Brig. Gen. Colonel Gardiner Maxwell Taylor, which the North African censor now passes on to the public. Outwitting ihe Germans to confer with Marshal Badogho in Rome just as our forces were about to invade the Italian :oast at Salerno involved all the mechanics of an old fashioned melo-irama, melo-irama, and a few new ones, too. The residents of Maine reading read-ing the news throw out their chests a bit, for the Gardners 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 ?naiQ9 th,e RePu"can ticket, in 1348 and again in 1930. The fishermen and lobster men between be-tween Boothbay Harbor and Penobscot Pe-nobscot Bay still chuckle at the way he start,ed them whenlh went campaigning i a vawl-sailing vawl-sailing in with the tide out oT a 3 6Sh tra u.W,? hiS Maine anstry, Colo-jel Colo-jel Gardner is actually a native of ?eenaCBUf hiS faer having' ;oug Tudor wis footbaU captain varsity stroke oar h'm to - degree from Trance with the AFT Weilt t0 iome a first Ulffit ""jl retun?ed -olonef Carder tUeravUlent thirties md politics for" aVe Up Mae egal career. It was?mandte State that WorW War , ?ay ack into uniform CaUed him |