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Berlin to Rio. Excited Spanish soldiers bungled the refueling at Seville. Instead of the expected northeast trades off the African coast, came head and beam winds. Torrential downpours near the Equator bore down like tons of added ballast. But the Graf Zeppelin plowed steadily along her new trade route to Brazil, landed at Pernambuco after 62 hours. The time from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro was six and a half days. Besides being her sixth Atlantic crossing the flight was a two-point triumph for the Graf: 1) proving the dirigible equal to tropical weather; 2) making Latin-America...
...Rain-flooded creeks rose menacingly around Smackover last week, did a million dollars dam age to surrounding oil fields. Its city hall be came relief headquarters. Measles developed in its refugee camp. A woman bore a child while floating downstream on a raft. The Red river raged with high water. An Arkansas tornado snorted through Elaine, left 17 dead behind...
...debate continued until last week, when Egyptian ire was cooled by Ger many's decision to return Queen Nefertiti to her native land, to accept several other rarities in exchange. Nefertiti was the wife of the pharaoh Ikhnaton, whom she espoused in the 14th Century B. C. She bore him no sons: the name of their son-in-law, Tutankhamun, an effete dilettante famed for the extravagant manner of his burial, is known to every bright U. S. schoolchild. More vital is the significance of Ikhnaton for he was the first recorded monotheist. In a regal frenzy he repudiated...
...give a--(censored on Sundays) just who did make off with the entirely nasty stockbroker: he's done away with and that's the important point. Mr. Powell sits and sits and-sits, oozes urbanity, overboiled coffee and Japanese prints, and almost succeeds in making the picture a bore. That it attains mediocrity instead of flat failure is due to the rest of the cast, notably William Boyd (not the William Boyd) who makes perhaps the smoothest gangster seen in these parts since the Wall Street Explosion. Paul Lukas as the flat foot causes one to wonder what, if anything...
Most respectable memoirs are dull: this one is no exception. Abundant with annotation and anecdote, Mrs. Hardy's work is a boon to Hardy scholars, a bore to lay readers. Only relieving element in the volume is the biographer's charitable lack of sentimentality...