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Caslon Roanoke, author of austere New England novels, goes to California for a vacation. A friend and admirer has taken a bungalow for him in the exotic colony of Alta Vista, introduces him to all of Alta Vista's queer characters. Before any of them can say "Roanoke," Caslon has them all in a book, finds that they are his characters. He falls hopelessly in love with Sylvia, and she does him a favor, but she remains devoted to her surly absentee husband. Sinister Mrs. Forgate, who has a reputation as a husband-poisoner, watches with a cold...
...Lake Garda in northern Italy, Colonel Mario Bernasconi, commander of the Scuola di Alta Velocita (high speed school), took the controls of the "Red Bullet" seaplane in which Warrant Officer Francesco Agello lately made a new world speed record of 423.7 m. p. h. (TIME, April 17). Col. Bernasconi streaked around the measured course of the lake while timing cameras clicked. The developed films showed a speed (unofficial...
...Cruz Alta, Argentina, Ricardo Pignon, 5, his head filled with tales of kidnappers, heard a tax collector demand money from his grandfather, shot the collector dead...
...Opener was founded 20 years ago as an iconoclastic review of British and Canadian politics by the late Robert Chambers ("Bob") Edwards, M. P. who resided in Calgary, Alta. Three years after Publisher Edwards' death in 1922, Eye Opener was bought by the late Harvey Fawcett who had broken away from the publishing business of his brothers Wilford and Roscoe. Brother Harvey changed Eye Opener to its present form, ran it's circulation up to a claimed 200,000. When he died in 1928 the magazine was bought by one Henry Myers who in turn sold it to Mrs. Fawcett...
...Salinas, Calif., Alta Fickle, 20, obsessed with the idea that her right arm would kill someone, lay down on a railroad track, waited until a train came by and amputated the arm. Said she: "I am happy...