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...Portuguese. A Chicago visitor said that Provincetown ladies decorated their hats with mackerel gills and swept their floors with halibut fins. But to Hawthorne, Provincetown's great natural resource was its summer light- brilliant and untempered, making houses, sand and wharves blaze against their backgrounds. In an old sail loft he established an art school. Before his death in 1930 it attracted 125 students each summer; Provincetown was more famous as an art colony than it had ever been as a fishing village; and Hawthorne had a reputation as one of the greatest of U. S. art teachers...
After a 26-day U. S. visit which proved that the better behaved a royal family may be the less interest it holds for a democracy, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, Crown Princess Louise and Prince Bertil of Sweden set sail for home on the Gripsholm. They said they had a wonderful time. As a gift from General Motors. Prince Bertil took back with him a shiny new 8-cylinder Cadillac sedan...
...Puerto Vallarta to claim his $25,000 Tira, undecided as to what sort of punishment should be meted out to boys who would swipe a yacht to hunt buried treasure. Some people thought Merchant Foote would exact no greater penalty than making the boys, as crew, sail the Tira back to Santa Cruz. "Gosh," he said wistfully as he departed, "I wish I had been on that trip. . . . I have been used only to cruises around Monterey...
...City. One evening he collides with a limousine containing glamorous Daisy Heath (Margaret Sullavan). Unaware of the nature of her attachment to her manager (Walter Pidgeon), Private Pettigrew falls in love. Aware of the effect of a rude disillusionment, Daisy makes a brave gesture that enables Private Pettigrew to sail for France with his sublimated devotion unimpaired...
Most exuberant metaphormix born of last week's continued market rise was voiced by Secretary of Commerce "Uncle Danny" Roper: "Now is the time for business to set its sail to the forward current and prepare for participation in the now forming upward swing...