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...wanted to marry her. In time, having won enough prestige to make his own law. he settled down happily with his "tawny Venus'' and raised a family. Nearly eight years later, when a Spanish vessel appeared, he engineered a trap to kill its crew. But in a sudden burst of homesickness for Spain he swam to the ship to identify himself. A few hours on board was enough. That night he slid over the side and struck out happily for shore...
Marta Abba, the Grand Dutchess, although an Italian actress, speaks English with a thrilling Russian accent. She has all the fervor that the part requires, and her sudden shifts from the sublime to the petty are brilliant...
While the high commands of the two great U. S. labor forces were assembled in simultaneous convention last month- A. F. of L. in Denver, C.I.O. in Atlantic City-they agreed in a sudden exchange of insulting telegrams to hold a formal peace conference. Last week the two delegations met in Washington-three men from A. F. of L., ten from C.I.O. From the start the conference seemed doomed. Superstitious reporters noted that the delegates numbered 13. Even the site of the conference, the creaky old Willard Hotel, was inauspicious, for the Willard itself is involved in one of those...
...started on October 16, when, on the first page of "Notes and Coment," the New Yorker supposedly lost its illusions and declared that "the six-foot base drum in the Harvard band is a phoney." Result of this sudden and undeserved notoriety of the giant precession instrument has been a flood of publicity, news photos and wiaccracks during the last two weeks, including a mammoth burlesque of inanimate maternity by pacudo-obatririenna from Hanover before the deluge at the Dartmouth game...
...direct line at full speed to the point where he crashed, that he apparently had perfect confidence he was on his course. His altitude was 10,000 feet, the approved height on his normal course. Two trappers who were nearby at the time of the accident, reported a sudden, violent wind and snow squall. United Air Lines quickly issued a report blaming weather conditions for rendering "the radio inoperative...