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...Dirrane (who acted as Flaherty's housemaid between scenes), a handsome child named Michael and a curly-haired fisherman known as Tiger King, the film shows the daily life of the Aran Islanders, their barren homes where garden soil must be gathered in baskets from crevices in the rock, their frail seagoing curraghs of tarred skins stretched over basketwork frames. High spot in the film is the harpooning of a 30-ft. basking shark by Tiger King & friends...
...coast of Corsica sat Playwright Noel Coward, sipping a drink, waiting for his chartered yacht Mairi to pick him up. Two days before a Mediterranean squall had sent him scurrying ashore to shelter. As the storm abated he saw Mairi nose in toward shallow water, buckle up on a rock, spill her crew into the sea. Yachtsman Coward started to hike. Twenty miles down the coast he walked into the village of Ile Rousse, told his plight to a skeptical hotelkeeper, who cabled London. When Coward got back to the wreck he waded in to salvage what he could, then...
Tobacco ranks sixth in the value of U. S. field crops, fifth in U. S. exports and most of it goes up in smoke. Usually the crop is worth $250,000,000 but last year, with prices not far from rock bottom, it brought only $180,000,000. Processed into cigarets, cigars, snuff and quids, it is worth $1,000,000,000 annually, and its taxes provide the U. S. Government with its largest single item of miscellaneous revenue ($400,000,000 per year). The marketing of tobacco products is a triumph of modern salesmanship but the marketing...
...Mohicans (it will never be a juvenile), but that would not necessarily mean it was a less worthy book. Even Cooper-addicts will admit that Author Stone has done a first-rate job. Her admirers will compare The Cold Journey favorably with Willa Gather's Shadow on the Rock...
...anniversary of the drilling of the first oil well by the late Col. Edwin I. Drake. The celebration was no love feast. While Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania smiled on the speakers' platform, Axtell J. Byles of the American Petroleum Institute keynoted: "Upon the rock of rugged individualism this nation was founded...