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Santa Isabel on the Island of Fernando Po is the Guinean Capital. Starting out with his secretary and a small suite. Governor General Don Gustavo de Sostoa, a popular veteran of the Spanish colonial service in Morocco, had been inspecting small islands for days. He came at last to Annobon, wrung the trusty Sergeant's hand, sat down to a festive, tropical dinner and prepared to endure the native dance. Shrill native pipes squealed, drums throbbed. Black men began to dance and no one noticed white Sergeant Castilla...
...started writing for the cinema at $15 a week, working up to an Academy prize in 1930 for The Big House. Lee Garmes, noted for his "low lighting," was a cameraman's assistant at 13. He came to notice with The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, later shot Morocco and An American Tragedy. Gordon Wiles left Annapolis in 1925 because of his health, studied art in Pans for two years, joined Fox in 1930 and made the ocean liner in Transatlantic a model for modern interiors on shipboard. Edwin Burke, son of a wholesale grocer in Albany, took up writing...
...Conquer) have sold more than 250,000 copies, not counting $1 reprints. In his Wright-powered Stearman biplane, The Flying Carpet, piloted by one Moye Stephens, Halliburton rode leisurely from London to Manila. On the way they stopped at Timbuctoo, spent two months with the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, visited Petra, Bagdad, India's Taj Mahal, claimed the first airplane photograph of Mt. Everest (Halliburton publishes a blurry picture which he says was taken at 18,000 ft.), were entertained by Dyak headhunters. For vicarious thrills of thoroughly professional daring, The Flying Carpet can safely be recommended...
Having in effect found this lost billion, M. Meyer presented optimistic plans for reorganizing the French Line purely as an ocean carrier, getting it out of its extensive hotel business in French Morocco, a pioneer work which has not paid...
...open the stomach of a concubine ''to see what was inside." Soon afterward French doctors formally certified that His Majesty was mad and in 1905 he was banished to Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar. On Reunion today languishes famed Abd-el-Krim, onetime bandit-chieftain of Morocco, who displeased the French exceedingly by fighting them with vigor, castrating captured Legionnaires (TIME, Sept...