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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith and his faithful wife, Thelma, were bundled into a big black police car for an exciting ride to Baton Rouge. Another car in front and one behind were filled with deputies. Two motorcycle policemen led the way, a squadron of press cars followed. The motorcade raced through traffic at 60 m.p.h. with all sirens wide open...
...autonomous. Thus the treaties which gave Poland an outlet to the sea through Danzig prohibit Polish military occupation of that outlet. On the Westerplatte, a low bank at the entrance to Danzig Harbor, however, is generally harbored a small garrison of Polish troops which guards a Polish ammunition warehouse. Behind those troops is an incident of 1920, when German Communist dock workers held up a shipment of arms to Poland, then fighting for its life against Bolshevik Russia. It was then that Poland saw the light and began to plan at Gdynia, 13 miles northwest, a new port. Poland knows...
...life (and still does), but because the sound technique leans heavily on radio principles. Herbert Jr., at 35, is a prospector in a big way, employing 200 men in five laboratories. He lives with his wife and three children in a secluded whitewashed brick house behind Pasadena, rides and plays a little tennis, but has little time for social doings and no time for country clubs. Most of the time he works. Unlike Jimmy Roosevelt, son of another U. S. President, who lives only 20 miles away, Herbert Hoover Jr., has no interest whatever in politics...
Growing Up. Christopher Robin Milne no longer goes hippity hoppity, nor looks behind curtains for tickly brownies, nor muses over a name for his dear little dormouse. The hero of When We Were Very Young, now 19 and a crack squash player, leaves Stowe prep school this term, goes next fall to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he is winner of a ?100 scholarship in mathematics...
Next printing of Pocket Books was 25,000 copies of each title. With these in his pack, Prospector de Graff will plunge boldly into the great U. S. literary desert. Behind him he leaves a big question mark: Can he equal the success of Penguin Books and Tauchnitz Editions in Europe (combined sales of 25,000,000 a year...