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...week's start, after 54 days of fighting, the estimated 200,000 Chinese troops defending Shanghai held every ad vantage, drove Japanese troops back at several points, at one time actually forced a fleet of eight Japanese transports to seek safety farther down the river. Day after day, Japan's long-heralded Big Push was postponed, finally got under way at week's end, with small success. Although the Japanese struck on a wide front, apparently with all the force they could muster by air, from the water and on land, the Chinese held firm, lost...
Cadet Stagg's desire to get off the Ranger was something easily comprehensible to the whole Pacific Fleet. He had just won the puzzler's equivalent of first prize in the Irish-sweepstakes, had beaten 2,000,000 other hopefuls for the $100,000 first prize in Old Gold cigarette's famed rebus puzzle contest (TIME, May 24). News of the award and names of 200 out of 1,000 other prize winners were published last week in 350 U. S. newspapers by P. Lorillard Co. Inc. over three months after the last Old Gold rebus appeared...
...Wayne (Jessie Matthews), assistant cinema critic on a Fleet Street paper, is assigned to cover the movements of a U. S. film star (Olive Blakeney) whom Scotland Yard suspects of being an international jewel thief. Pat, determined to dog her quarry to earth's end, signs on as the actress's maid, quickly gets into difficulties which result in her hiding in a trunk. Next thing she knows she is aboard a liner which is returning the cinemactress to the U. S. Also aboard is a young detective (Barry Mackay) and a U. S. gangster (Nat Pendleton), both...
...Teatro Comunale in ancient Florence one night last spring, it seemed to the swank audience watching the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, part of the city's "Musical May" festival, that Dancer Leonide Massine was behaving oddly indeed. Dark, wiry, as fleet-footed as ever for his years (40), the maître de ballet and choreographer of the famed troupe did not appear to have his mind entirely on his work. He kept glancing toward the wings, grimacing and nodding at someone offstage. When the curtain fell, Massine hastened backstage. There, summoned by urgent telegrams both from Massine...
...first real dentists in this country were two Frenchmen who arrived during the Revolutionary War with Rochambeau's fleet. Before that, and long afterwards, barbers, blacksmiths and jewelers pulled the teeth and made the plates of the colonists. Those "tooth-drawers" traveled from house to house, farm to farm, town to town. In their packs they carried an assortment of human, calf and hippopotamus teeth...