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Aimee Semple McPherson, soul-saver, returned to the U. S. (via Paris) from a trip to the Holy Land, with Bibles, lamps, some Palestinian garments (to wear in the pulpit of her Angelus Temple Church of the Foursquare Gospel) and bright yellow hair (it was reddish when she left the U. S.). While she whirled away on a 200-mile week-end trip through the Catskills, U. S. Customs agents checked her luggage, levied $138 against her in duties and penalties for undeclared imports. Returning to Manhattan to find she had made Page One all over the U. S., Sister...
...overlooking the famed battlefield where the Greeks defeated the Persians in 490 B. C. The dam is faced with marble from Mt. Pentelicon (which also supplied the marble for the classic temples of the Acropolis) and the water from its reservoir travels a portion of its route to Athens via the old Hadrian Aqueduct, constructed some 2,000 years ago. Largely interested in Ulen & Co. is Matthew Chauncey Brush's American International Corp. and Charles Augustus Stone's and Edwin Sibley Webster's Stone & Webster...
Numbering among its 22 passengers Sir George Hubert Wilkins, polar explorer, and Lady Wilkins, on a belated honeymoon, the Graf headed for home via Seville, was twice belabored by storms. North of Lyon, on the last day of the voyage, Dr. Eckener described the squalls as "a regular witches' cauldron...
When Explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins arrived in Manhattan from the Antarctic two months ago, he made the same announcement to newsgatherers that he has been making regularly for the past ten years: that he intends to make a submarine journey from Spitsbergen, via the North Pole, to Point Barrow, Alaska...
Last week France gave 'her answer when Pilot Jean Mermoz and two companions flew the Paris mail into Santiago, Chile, in four days. Compagnie Generale Aeropostale announced a weekly schedule, weather permitting. from Toulouse, France, to Santiago via Senegal, Brazil and Buenos Aires. Craft used: a Late 28 seaplane powered with 600-h. p. Hispano-Suiza engine. Significance: France will concentrate on heavier-than-air craft with immediate returns while other nations undertake costly dirigible experiment...