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...plane from San Francisco he flew to Dearborn, Mich, where awaited him a job in Ford Motor Co.. arranged by Harry Bennett, chief of Ford company police, whom he had taught boxing in the Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting on Lake Superior, was seasick. He said it was the first time. "The short, choppy swells got me." Real estate men of Pawhuska, Okla. said that Col. Zack Miller, smart publicist, was negotiating for sale of his bankrupt...
...Devil help the criminal who injures a policeman or his family. Outside Albany last week Edward ("Fats") McCarthy, "cop killer." was shot in the head and killed by avenging detectives, who were praised, promised promotion for their deed...
...crest is marked by dull periods when the men's blood runs slow with the tedium of making a living. Then a glimpse of what the Fosdycks are out after, or a chance lobster hooked on a cod line starts the blood boiling up. It boils up first in devil-may-care Marney Lunn, who lives in complete domestic happiness with his wife Amy in a little cottage perched on a cliff over the sea. In its cozy interior the new fever makes its first subtle appearance. Restless, he goes off to the family "work-shop," tries to infect...
...life of his native parish, though his books are far from parochial. His earlier works (Three Friends, The Good Conscience} were preparatory to his six-volume Juviking epic that follows that family's affairs from times when Progenitor Per Anders fights hand to hand with the Devil, to his descendants' struggles with more modern devilish banks and herring-oil factories. Highly prized by his fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than in his difficult Landsmaal dialect) he is reported to have missed a Nobel Prize by one vote. The circulation...
...hair now honey-blonde because she was "tired of being a red-haired hussy all my life," Soprano Mary Garden, 55, arrived in the U. S. from Europe to sing Carmen in Cleveland this week. Said she, patting her middle: "Here I work like the devil getting this figure and then they always find some big fat blonde to point out as Mary Garden! ... I am at last heartbroken over a man. He is, alas, Andrea Spada. I have been in Corsica where he was a swashbuckling brigand and I loved him so much I named my dog after...