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...Sail Ho! By year's end, the U.S. will again be importing commodities from the troubled Netherlands East Indies. The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in New York announced that the first cargoes will include: tapioca, spices, varnish gums, essential oils, hides & skins...
...Westmores came by their skill honestly. Their father was a London wigmaker and hairdresser. He was also an iron disciplinarian: he once chained Perc to his wigmaker's bench. In 1909 he packed up his family and set sail for Montreal. There he got a job in a beauty shop. The pay was low, so at night he added to it by glamorizing Montreal's ladies of the evening...
Target Elusive. None of this was very exciting. As every city boss knows, candidates should make great promises, roar for reform or sail into their opponents, particularly incumbent opponents. Frankensteen found that attacking his opponent, Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, was disconcertingly like shadow boxing. In six years as mayor, Jeffries had done little, had made few bad mistakes...
...with Pirate Laurent Van Horn (Paul Henreid), an ex-Dutch sea captain, fat, dastardly Spanish Governor Don Alvarado (Walter Slezak) and aristocratic Francisca (Maureen O'Hara). There is all sorts of high-spirited romancing, pirate treachery, Iberian cruelty and slashing sword play before Van Horn and Francisca finally sail away together into an almost overpoweringly golden sunrise...
Holy Serpents! Backed by the blessings of the gods and the winds of the spring equinox, the Argonauts set sail. On the Island of Lemnos, which was peopled solely by women, the Argonauts generously stopped off to help out with the spring sowing. Nine months later, 200 children were born on Lemnos, of whom no less than 60 were said to be the spitting image of Hercules...