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When Franklin Roosevelt, an old friend of Carlos Dávila, heard how things stood, he knew exactly what to do. By executive decree he set aside the Army's rule that women cannot fly in Army planes, put a four-motored Boeing bomber at Senora Dávila's disposal. One day last week an Army ambulance rolled Carlos Dávila's lady out to Mitchel Field, L. I. With a crew of eight, accompanied by her husband, an Army surgeon and a nurse (Olympia Fumigalli), Señora Dávila took...
Gillham made friends with Angus Gavin, a Hudson's Bay Co. trader, and whipped up in Gavin a hot excitement for the search. Gavin had himself transferred to the Perry River post. Some Canadian sportsmen and bird-lovers proselytized Gavin's boss, who authorized and financed an expedition. Gavin and a friend set out with a 16-ft. sled carrying supplies and an 18-ft. canoe. They sledged five miles up the river, then reached open water and took to the canoe. Fifteen miles farther up they came to an unnamed, uncharted lake, dotted with small islands...
...Bologna, fat, flush Tenor Beniamino Gigli found he had won the weekly Italian national lottery. He promptly split the 11,000 lire ($555.50) prize among a friend and the three waiters whose shield numbers he had played...
Last year, after war began, Rothermere was sued by Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a friend of Hitler, who said that Rothermere had offered her ?5,000 a year to serve as his personal representative in Central Europe. Rothermere admitted that he had paid the Princess over ?51,000 in six years, publicly confessed that he had once admired Hitler. Said he: "I was wrong-and so was half the population...
Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast (London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Kajanus; Victor: 4 sides; $2.50). Incidental music to a play by Sibelius' friend Hjalmar Procopé, Finnish Minister to the U. S. Finnish Orientalism is queer, but pleasing...