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...returned. When he got it back, he paid his crew and blew out his brains, but Monte Carlo Madness is a less sordid variation of the incident. The Captain (Hans Albers) is in charge of the one-boat Navy of a place called Pontenero (to rhyme with "zero" and "hero"). When he meets the Queen of Pontenero (Sari Maritza) he mistakes her for a demimondaine and they enjoy a romance. When it becomes known that the Captain has gambled away the ship's payroll, he makes a neat dive over the side and gaily dog-paddles toward a steamer...
...Davis Cup tennis team: the North American Zone finals against Australia, five matches to zero; in Philadelphia. Brazil is the U. S.'s next opponent...
...record to date of this year's council is a round zero. It has started with a clean slate, and kept it clean. The collection from Stadium crowds for the unemployed was a result of outside pressure on the part of University Hall conspiring with a Boston Transcript writer; initiative for a perfunctory resolution at the time of subway rioting also came from the Dean's office. Beyond this the existing organization has done nothing. The preceding council compiled a report on the tutorial system which has already produced results. If the present body has instigated any investigations, neither...
...quick freezing of foods is becoming "America's fastest-growing industry," declared Clarence Birdseye and Gerald A. Fitzgerald of Gloucester, Mass. More than 100 food products are now frozen for market. Food, moving on endless belts, is swiftly turned to ice at 25° to 30° below zero Fahrenheit. There are mobile freezing machines which may be moved into truck gardens, orchards and berry patches. Among many "quick-freezing" problems are how to preserve taste, appearance and nutrition values upon defrosting. Donald Kiteley Tressler and William T. Murray of Gloucester have been trying to determine just how long...
...masses of the stars could not decrease appreciably, and that the drop in luminosity of an average star of the dwarf branch cannot exceed half a magnitude since its origin, instead of the expected six magnitudes or more, and the probable value of the drop in luminosity is zero...