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Howard Hawks is a specialist in action stories with a technical background (The Dawn Patrol, Scarface, The Crowd Roars). Lean, tall, with grey hair and a young face, he inherited a fortune which he lost in silent pictures, gained enough experience to make another. He always works with his writers preparing stories. Patient, diligent, tactful, he calls his actors by their first names. They call him Mr. Hawks. His wife is Norma Shearer's sister Athole. He plays good golf, drives a green Duesenberg, loses weight every time he makes a picture...
...from Hour-Havenne, Belgium one dawn last week rose Stratonauts Max Cosyns and Neere van der Elst, soared nearly ten miles, broke no records, obtained scientific data, sent out an SOS when their wireless developed defects, scared half the world into thinking they were dead, drifted 1,100 mi. in 14 hr. across five countries, landed safe & sound at Zinovlje, Jugoslavia...
Night after night vigorous, broad-shouldered President Carlos Mendieta y Montefur sat up until the wee hours, wrangling with his Cabinet last week until Secretary of Justice Mario Montero could stand it no longer. "I am tendering my resignation," he told reporters wearily in the grey dawn. "I simply cannot sit up through all night Cabinet sessions, attend to the business of the Ministry of Justice and keep my health...
...strong wind was whipping up the sea. For four hours, Angler Howell tried to reel his tuna in before handing his 26-oz. hickory rod to his companion, Arthur De Cordova. All through that night, De Cordova, Howell, Captain Thompson and a seaman struggled with the tuna. When dawn broke the great fish was as strong as ever, still swimming away from the boat and resisting all efforts to turn him. Presently a skiff from the Thalia brought food to the men in the launch. They took turns tugging at their tuna all that day when the rough sea made...
...every crisis high-strung, intuitive Adolf Hitler endeavors to act with lightning speed to outsmart his enemies and rivals. Day & night last week a special telephone wire was constantly kept open between the Chancellor's headquarters and the home of the dying President. In the afternoon, when death by dawn seemed certain, Chancellor Hitler left Berlin by plane and arrived at Neudeck with his personal photographer. Only strenuous remonstrance by Col. Oscar von Hindenburg prevented the taking of deathbed flashlight pictures of Nazi Hitler by the side of Hero Hindenburg. Sinking fast, Old Paul barely recognized Herr Hitler to whom...