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...their path, opened up with her 6-inch guns. Into the hull of one Italian smashed the first salvo, scarcely dispersed at the point-blank range. But the other attackers maneuvered their small guns into play, began pumping 3.9-inch shells back at the Ajax. With an orange-colored flash, an Italian shell plowed through an unarmored compartment forward on the Ajax. Next minute, a series of blasts roared from a second torpedo boat as the Ajax's shells reached her vitals. The vessel disintegrated...
Amid a burst of flash bulbs at Hollywood's airport, hard-polished blonde Cinemactress Constance Bennett embarked on a plane for Reno to divorce Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, Gloria Swanson's and her third husband. She gave a farewell kiss to a squinting young man-her eleven-year-old adopted son Peter...
...note in the Harvard football camp all fall, especially as the injury list mounted, but recent pep and enthusiasm have done a lot to change the picture. There is the growing conviction among competent observers down at the practice field in the afternoons that if the Crimson Juniors can flash their weekday form on Saturdays, they will give the major opponents on their schedule all they can handle. Signal drills go along at a merry clip, with the squad beginning to acquire that fine veneer of polish and precision for which Harlow elevens are famous...
...night, for 96 tense hours, Lieut. Davies and his squad burrowed. No excitement of active combat, no military ends, no instinct to destroy the enemy urged them as they grubbed 27 feet into the wet, sandy soil. They were in constant expectation of a blinding, icy flash of death. As they dug, a gas main caught fire and began to broil the bomb. Twice on the way up the bomb slipped its tackles and fell to the bottom of the hole...
...group of cinema luminaries burst forth in Noel Coward's nine-play cycle Tonight at 8:30 right in Los Angeles' El Capitan Theatre. Suddenly the stage became as popular in Hollywood as pinko politics used to be. Three weeks ago, amid a bright glare of flash bulbs, the Coward cycle reached its climax, with Noel himself in the audience. Bedazzling was the throng that welcomed him. Even the reclusive Garbo was there, escorted by her dietitian Dr. Gayelord Hauser, who puts as much faith in vegetable juice as Popeye puts in spinach...