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...three Hawaiian entries in the Pacific race, one of the two boats that carried a radio transmitter. Halfway across, she sent a message: "All aboard Manuiwa are well but worried about where our competitors may be." Honolulu was also sufficiently worried to send navy planes out to search for five boats that had not yet finished: Scaramouche, Viva, Queequeg, Naitamba, Common Sense. But they all arrived safely...
...acting in his latest play-with-music, Conversation Piece, fell gravely ill, insisted on finishing his part. Afterward surgeons performed an appendectomy in what they called "the nick of time." Dodging newshawks in California Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told her breathless pursuers: "If I had charge of the Dillinger search, I would call off the police and send reporters after him?they would be sure to find...
...England, "bum" in U. S. parlance means a down-&-outer. But not every social outcast answers willingly to the name. Many a hobo is no bum but a journeyman worker, traveling cheaply from one seasonal occupation to another. Some "jungle" inhabitants are college graduates, may even be sociologists in search of statistics. Such a bloodhound in bum's clothing was Author Thomas Minehan. Disguising himself with apparently complete success, he spent two years' vacations traveling in boxcars, weekending in jungles, standing in mission breadlines, indefatigably taking notes. The result was the first book of its kind...
...recommended to his King, is Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, 53, dean of Exeter Cathedral. An able theologian and philosophy professor, Dr. Matthews is a religious modernist and far from gloomy. His latest book is a reply to Britain's unorthodox pundit: The Adventures of Gabriel in His Search of Mr. Shaw. This year he scandalized his diocese and caused a "petition of regret" to be circulated when he sponsored a series of Lenten lectures in the Cathedral by Nonconformists...
...from her moorings. When one of them hired a water taxi and tried to get aboard, a man with a revolver ordered him off, ordered the taxi to tow him out of the harbor, and then put off into Long Island Sound on Cumberbunce II. Authorities started a search for the first pirate on the Atlantic Coast since 1819, when five were hanged in Boston...