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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Giuseppe Cardinal Gamba, Archbishop of Turin, 72; longtime friend of Italy's Royal Family; at Turin, Italy...
Last week also Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Eielson's close friend, asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, "the man I know best in the Cabinet," somehow to ask the Soviets to put their Siberian representatives on the hunt, particularly those at the Wrangel Island meteorological station and on the ships Lipke and Stavropol. It was a ticklish request, for the U. S. and Russia have no diplomatic relations. Secretary Wilbur immediately asked the Soviet Government for aid, through its Washington information bureau. He also sent telegrams to Territorial Governor George Alexander Parks at Juneau, urging...
...scene shifts to France in 1812. The old Senlis tomb in the monastery is excavated by Gravedigger Jobey. He discovers the battered coronet, sells it to the blacksmith, who sells it to the jeweler. Young André Jobey enlists in the Army with a friend and they go to Russia under Napoleon. In the retreat from Moscow they meet a Russian officer, Burin, who has just lost his silver whip and is looking for it drunkenly through the snow. The whip has been picked up by somebody and given to Napoleon who passing through Senlis on his way to Paris, flings...
...scene changes to Fleet Street; young Bolt has got a job on a newspaper, finds journalism's ways at first rich and strange. Then we go with his friend Maynard, a traveling correspondent, to Novobambia, fever-ridden jungle country whose mineral riches the chancellories of Europe are scheming to keep away from each other. Even out here the threat of war is heavy in the air. When Maynard comes home he is sent off to Ireland, which seems on the verge of rebellion; but when a shot is fired in a little Balkan town the journalists hurry home...
...Author. H. M. ("Tommy") Tomlinson, 56, is described by a friend (J. B. Priestley) as looking at first glance "like a rather hard-bitten city clerk. At a second glance, he looks like a gnome. . . ." He was born in London's East End, among the docks; was a sailor, newspaper correspondent, war correspondent, literary editor of the London Nation and Athenaeum. Other books: The Sea and the Jungle, Old Junk, Under the Red Ensign, Gallions Reach...