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Episodes in the seal-hunt have that intimate realism which the cinema alone can give such a subject. The Viking grinds through ice sometimes so thick that it has to be dynamited. When a radio report reveals a seal herd 20 miles away, the swilers debark and scramble over 20 miles of broken ice to find them. The hunt itself ?the men deploying to stalk the seals, killing them with shotguns?is ably but too briefly photographed. Tragic is the situation of one squeaking white baby seal, stuck to a lump of ice; when his mother pauses to nose...
...makes his home in an eleven-room suite at the swanky Mayflower Hotel on Connecticut Avenue. Ordinary tenants would have to pay $150 per day for these quarters; the Vice President gets them for $5.53. The Mayflower is controlled by the American Bond & Mortgage Co. of which short, stout, thick-necked William J. Moore, 65, is president.* Since last autumn the Department of Justice has been investigating American Bond & Mortgage. Thousands of investors have complained that this company gobbled up their money, returned them nothing. Charges have been made in court that Mr. Moore had a technique of financing...
...holystone passed out of U. S. Naval tradition. The new 10,000-ton treaty cruisers are being built as lightly as possible to carry the heaviest possible armament. Even the aluminum beams are whittled away wherever safety permits. The decks, made of expensive teakwood, are only 2 in. thick (compared to the 4-2-in. pine decks of U. S. Liners). Announced Secretary of the Navy Adams: "The use of holystones wears down the decks so rapidly that their repair or re-placement has become an item of expense [cost of replacing a cruiser deck: $50,000] which cannot...
...this one. It has many earmarks of what passes for worth; a pioneer panorama, noble savages, slick Manhattanites and Chicagoans, "frankness," a (pseudo) devil-may-care style. Author Tiffany Thayer knows how to butter his bread, knows many a reader will put up with oleomargarine if it is spread thick enough...
...gossiper is going well he is not necessarily wicked, is often entertaining, sometimes even slightly edifying. Ford Madox Ford's books are gossipy, mostly entertaining but occasionally like the vaporings of the club bore. He is a great one . . . for three dots. Notterdam and Kratch had been through thick & thin, up a deal and down hell together. They were now twin tycoons lording it in Manhattan. Kratch had many an iron in the fire; Notterdam's only one was the rod with which he ruled the great publishing house of Post, Gellatly & Jeaffreson. Cronies but always cantankerous, Notterdam...