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...Intrepid Spirit." For the News plant and equipment, its Associated Press franchise and other assets, Grocer McDonald paid $150,000, assumed the burden of its $325,000 bonded debt. Last week George Fort Milton started again from scratch. He had 675 backers, most of them in Chattanooga, a bare $25,000 capital...
...miles south of Bergen, closely hugging the craggy, fjord-bitten coast, before three big British reconnaissance planes swooped low over her. Soon after, with express Admiralty orders to do so, into Norwegian waters from their stations on North Sea patrol raced a British cruiser and five destroyers. The destroyer Intrepid halted the Altmark, but while Captain Philip Louis Vian of the senior destroyer Cossack had words with the Norwegian gunboat's commander, the Altmark slid into Joesing Fjord, a deep, narrow, dead-end harbor five miles long. Another Norwegian gunboat appeared, joining the first to bar the fjord...
...there are the big producers, who like to play poker and polo. Intrepid and hard-working Ouida Rathbone is leader of an amorphous salon of her own, and she managed to bag a specimen of nearly every Hollywood social genus for her party...
Lungfish are evolutionary survivors of the Devonian period (300-400 million years ago) when many forward-looking fish were experimenting with lungs. The lungfish are related to those intrepid pioneers which crawled up on land to become ancestors of reptiles, mammals and birds; also to the Coelacanths, which had fins like rudimentary limbs and which were thought by scientists to have been extinct for 50,000,000 years?until last year, when an astonishing live Coelacanth was brought up in a fishing net off the South African coast (TIME, April 3). The lungfish of today are evolutionary laggards. By coming...
...newspaperman (for two years Parliamentary correspondent for the Montreal Gazette), Banker MacDonnell is no amateur, no fuddy-duddy. After Munich last year he composed 36 lines of blank verse on Chamberlain. Excerpt: . . . the butt of every neutral gibe; And stupid in the eyes of arrogance. . . . He took a great, intrepid, lonely step, Biding his time amid the arctic night Of calumny and ridicule and fear, With little company...