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Sweeping through a subarctic fog one morning last week, the Icelandic patrol boats Maria Julia and Thor bore down on a pair of British trawlers that had dropped their nets within seven miles of Iceland's coast. The Icelanders had succeeded in getting nine men aboard the trawler Northern Foam when the British frigate Eastbourne charged at flank speed onto the scene. The nine boarders were quickly subdued, bundled into a motor launch and ferried back to Thor. But Thor's skipper refused to accept them, on grounds that the British had used coercion in removing them from...
More than half of the senior class, 112 of the 216, will graduate with honors. Four will receive the Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude. They are Anga Boass of Sherborn, Biology; Mrs. Dorothy Milman Merman of Great Neck, N.Y., English; Julia Otis of Takoma Park, Md., History and Literature; and Mrs. Gabriella Pintus Schlesinger of Boston, English...
Visiting Washington's zoo one afternoon last week with her grandfather and sister, 2½-year-old Julia Ann Vogt of Chilliwack, B.C. squeezed through a metal railing that keeps spectators six feet from the lions' cages, backed away teasingly when her grandfather ordered her to come out, backed up to a cage where a waiting ten-year-old lion named Caesar grabbed the child, clawed her into the cage, and with his mate, Princess, mangled her to death...
...Star. Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner was a pressagent's dream ready-made for stardom by Hollywood standards. Her father was killed in a gambling scrape when she was ten; her mother struggled to keep her alive. In Hollywood one day, when she was a well-stacked 16, she was "discovered" as she sat at a drugstore fountain. Hollywood gave her the big buildup. Renamed Lana, she made movies with the biggest of the box-office giants-Gable, Taylor, Cooper-and nobody, least of all the customers, cared if she was not a second Sarah Bernhardt...
...Johnny was dead. Lana was still alive; a judge would decide soon whether she would lose custody of her only child. Julia Jean Turner had come a long way in the make-believe wonderland of Hollywood-where moviemen are confident that the Sweater Girl is now bigger box office than ever...