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...crossing, had improved not at all in the next 13 hours. Expanses of fog were relieved only by rain; cloud banks were broken only by a northeast gale. For 17 hours the flyers saw no water. Early in the morning Pilot Hoiriis spiralled the plane down through a rift in the clouds-and there was land! It must be England, dead on the path of Copenhagen. Any moment they expected to sight the English Channel beyond the island. But ahead of them stretched only land-many times more land than comprises the British Isles. Then they wondered if they might...
Pagan Lady. This is the first time in 13 years that bushy-haired, voluptuous Lenore Ulric (Tiger Rose, Kiki, Lulu Belle, Mima) has not appeared under the aegis of Producer David Belasco. Gossipists have assumed that the reason for the rift is that Miss Ulric was unwilling to appear in the current Belasco offering, Dancing Partner, that the memory of unsuccessful Mima still rankles. But tradition dictates that any Belasco star who marries automatically leaves his service.* Pagan Lady is Actress Ulric's first vehicle since she was wed to Sidney Blackmer...
...piled up in huge distorted lumps with jagged, jutting corners showing that it has been thrown up recently. Aniakchak and Veniaminoff are two craters of the volcanic range stretching for 2,000 mi. from Mt. Spurr in Alaska to the Aleutian Islands. Almost every 35 mi. along this rift is a volcanic peak, many of them still active...
...Peace, attracted attention to Stone Mountain by scaling the back of Traveller and pouring thereon a pail of "colored brick water." The "brickwater" trickled through Traveller, made a large and ugly stain beneath, thereby proving Will Tuggle's premise that a crevice existed which might in time become a rift and finally a mountainside to carry the whole memorial down to the dust heap below (TIME, June...
...resolutions are by no means mandatory; they reflect the opinions of the majority of the bishops. The secrecy of the sessions is to shroud the often bitter arguments among the bishops. 2) The Church of England is not a unanimous body. Its Anglo-Catholic group has developed a serious rift in its doctrinal observations...