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Twenty-one years ago a boatload of bewildered Italian immigrants sifted through the mill of Ellis Island. One of the number was swarthy, stocky Fortunate Manure, a Sicilian. In the United States Fortunato Manure did not do so badly. He raised a family of seven children, worked as a laborer at various jobs, was able to act enough like a U. S. citizen to get himself a U. S. passport, but the Depression of 1929 left him without a job. One son found work in Philadelphia, the rest of the Manure family in 1931 joined thousands of other disillusioned immigrants...
...autos with his teeth. He cannot lift 250 Ib. above his head five or six times without straining. . . .I defy him to carry 500 Ib. five or six blocks or one block with or without straining. He cannot run ten miles in an hour and he cannot tow a boatload of hysterical women a distance of one mile against wind, wave and tide as he claimed...
...ears splash in the tank as boatload after boatload of prospective Varsity oarsmen work out, smiling Tom Bolles declines to commit himself in any way on who will be in that first boat that starts against Princeton towards the end of April, or, of more importance, of just who he thinks is going to win that race. But one impression is definitely gained in that boathouse: the crew that does wear the Crimson in that and succeeding races will have plenty of spirit, and they will represent the best that one of the country's best coaches can produce...
...Good Earth in 1933, it set out to make its picture equally superlative. Twenty writers, including Tess Slesinger, Marc Connelly, Talbot Jennings and Claudine West tried their band at adapting the stage version written by Owen and Donald Davis. Director George Hill went to China, returned with a boatload of authentic properties, presently committed suicide. Victor Fleming took the helm, quit with malaria. Sidney Franklin finished the job. Meanwhile the presiding genius, Irving Thalberg, died, left Al Lewin the production problems. Near Chatsworth, Calif., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer rented 500 acres, carved a replica of a Chinese landscape complete with Great...
...which is perched on a snow-covered bluff, looked down on a yellow sea where its business district and part of its residential district had been. There Paul Schmidt, chairman of the local Red Cross, got a lift from a passing skiff which promptly sank under him. Before a boatload of cameramen would rescue him they made him turn his profile so they could take his picture (see cut). A few miles farther down the sloshing water seemed to have no shore. In Paducah, Ky., at the mouth of the Tennessee River, the Coast Guard reported that...