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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small steamer was last week permitted temporarily to put into Beirut, Lebanon, after a wave of suicide and disease among its 650 passengers. Two others were off the Lebanese coast. The ships were part of the fleet of vessels, mostly run by Rumanians and Greeks, that hovers continuously off the Palestine coast. Crowded miserably aboard them are hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland, Germany, Rumania, Hungary and former Czecho-Slovakia. At night the vessels edge closer to the shore, watching for the signal lights that mean all is clear for the landing of their cargoes. Since April 1938 more than...
Some medical discoveries are over-ballyhooed. Among them is testosterone, now sometimes puffed as a great rejuvenator. Actually there is no such thing as a "rejuvenator...
When he grew up Chang moved to Chungking, married, became the "tiger painter" of his people. Even as a young man he was recognized as unsurpassed among China's 20th Century painter-poets. And throughout a 50-year career important breeders never failed to keep him supplied with the finest tigers available. One pet insisted upon acting as a pillow for Chang and his little daughter at night, another made nocturnal excursions to the bedroom for regular handouts of eggs...
...Tops among Hollywood writer-director teams for many a year were hairy little Frank Capra, who used to be a Mack Sennett gagman, and baldish Robert Riskin, who got into the movie business when a shirt manufacturer he was working for decided to take a flier in shorts. During the six years they worked together for Columbia, Capra & Riskin turned out a dazzling string of critical and box-office successes, Lady For a Day, Broadway Bill, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You. They won their share...
...Angela Kaufman, divorced wife of the late President Joseph Kaufman of American Razor Co., had acquired The Castle, onetime home of the late Ambassador to Italy Richard Washburn Child, had turned the stone mansion into an inn. Mrs. Kaufman applied for a liquor license. Her neighbors, among them socialites and Newport's mayor, filed objections, as the law allowed...