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...armies toward Peking. The reaction of U. S. President Coolidge to this situation was to inform reporters that the removal of the U. S. Legation from Peking down to the seacoast at Tientsin, or even 650 miles southward to Shanghai, was contemplated. The reaction of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand pat at Peking. . . . This meant that Minister MacMurray was looking out for troops to defend the Legation from possible captors of Peking. Late...
...Alert magazine readers could have played a neat joke on friends and family last week. "Go over there and shut your eyes," they could have said, "and listen while I read you something. Listen carefully because you'll have to answer a question when I finish...
...alert questioner could then have read this excerpt...
...Journey. Captain Lindbergh took the shortest route to Paris- the great circle-cutting across Long Island Sound, Cape Cod, Nova Scotia, skirting the coast of Newfoundland. He later told some of his sky adventures to the aeronautically alert New York Times for syndication: "Shortly after leaving Newfoundland, I began to see icebergs. . . . Within an hour it became dark. Then I struck clouds and decided to try to get over them. For a while I succeeded at a height of 10,000 feet. I flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy...
Because the Chicago Board of Trade, if its officials had been conscientiously alert, might have prevented the Armour Grain Co. frauds (TIME, April 25 et ante), the Board has been the butt of severe criticism. Last week the situation...