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Gloria Scigliano swam from the shore to the island on the same day: time, 57 minutes. Miss Anastasia Scott, daughter of an Army sergeant stationed on the island, negotiated the distance in 47 minutes earlier in the week. In line with efforts of criminals who might attempt this means of escape, she started from the island. The feat was also accomplished by one Mabel Green as far back...
Vacationing in Paris, Chesley W. Jurney, Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate, remarked that he would like to visit the French Senate, said that he also wanted some information for U. S. friends organizing a wine agency. Helpful Leon Douarche of the French Government's wine bureau introduced him to the Senate Wine Commission, several Senators from the wine regions. Next morning Paris newspapers front-paged Sergeant-at-Arms Jurney as the "Secretaire-General of the American Senate, who has been charged by his Government to establish an agency for the importation of French wines, which will...
Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Radetzky March was the leading best-seller there. Author Joseph Roth has now taken his place with Exiles Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Stefan Zweig (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, Success). On the strength of this book, critics would have put him among them anyhow...
...Shoot some Communists" is the tried and trusty maxim of Latin American politicos seeking diplomatic recognition by the Great Powers. In Havana last week the student-supported Cabinet of President Ramon Grau and the spunky Cuban Army now commanded by ex-Sergeant ("Emperor") Fulgencio Batista seized a fine chance to impress the world with their hostility to Reds...
Next move of President Grau's Government was to deal with the Cuban officers still besieged in the U. S.-owned National Hotel which they turned into an impromptu fortress after the sergeant's coup of "Emperor" Batista (TIME. Sept. 11). Tipped off to expect trouble, the National's U. S. Manager, W. P. Taylor, and his three assistants went out to a late dinner about 10 p. m. and did not return. Shooting started next dawn. Before sundown the entire vicinity was to be a bloody bedlam...