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Treachery ashore disarmed the Norwegian ships and coast gun crews at Norway's naval base of Horten, across Oslo Fjord from Moss. But the Norse mine layer Olav Tryggvason put in there unexpectedly for repairs Monday evening, unbeknownst to the plotters. When, before dawn, she beheld German warboats coming in unchallenged, she promptly torpedoed the cruiser Emden and a submarine. One coast gun crew in the narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling...
...Glamor Girl of the East" is the title that will go to the Cinderella who wins the contest now being sponsored by the Union Photographic Society, which will be judged by popular vote and not by a "bunch of moss-backed society reporters...
Still unsold are Broadway's two super smashes, Life With Father and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Life insists, naming no names, that it has had offers up to $300,000. The Man insists that it is not for sale, that its authors, George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart, will film it themselves...
...from the main highway, cuts through rich, sombre swampland I down to the green levees girdling the Mississippi. There, hidden in an elbow of the I river, far from the nearest village, stands a white-columned plantation house. Guarding the house are two gigantic oaks, shrouded in ghostly Spanish moss. The cottages behind the oaks might belong to sugarcane workers or tenant farmers. But the 367 men & women who live at Carville cut no cane, plough no field. They are lepers...
...piece piano virtuoso (the famed Gershwin-Grofé Rhapsody in Blue), and an intermittent pupil of famed Arnold Schönberg, who taught him how to write complicated high-brow music. When, nine years later, he returned to Manhattan to conduct and arrange music for shows by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Oscar Levant was jack of a dozen musical trades...