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Captains Courageous (Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy); A Star Is Born (Janet Gaynor, Fredric March); Make Way for Tomorrow (Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi); Kid Galahad (Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris) ; Under the Red Robe (Raymond Massey, Annabella, Conrad Veidt); I Met Him in Paris (Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas); Slim (Pat O'Brien, Henry Fonda, Margaret Lindsay); A Day at the Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx) ; The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell...
...scholarly Alvin Martin Ulbrickson the rise of Washington on the water is a matter of lifelong personal interest. He was born within sight of the Husky boathouse four years before the late famed Hiram Conibear became crew coach in 1907. He grew tough rowing daily two miles across Lake Washington to and from high school in Seattle. Entering Washington in 1922, he at once turned out for crew, rowed in the freshman shell that took second place at Poughkeepsie the following spring. Sophomore year he stroked the Washington varsity to victory at Poughkeepsie. He captained Coach Rusty Callow...
Most meteors or "shooting stars" are entirely consumed by the burning friction of their swift flight through the atmosphere. Meteorites are bodies which are big enough to survive their flaming passage and land on earth. Meteoriticist Nininger was born 50 years ago in Kansas, in which a greater number of important meteorite finds have been made than in any other U. S. State. He started his scientific career, however, as a biologist. One night in 1923, while he was a biology professor at McPherson College in Kansas, he saw a shooting star so bright that he was sure some...
...Born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1756, Captain Barde reached Birdsboro via the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, England, and war with the Spaniards at Pensacola, Fla. where he wooed and won the 14-year-old daughter of his landlady with a ring chopped from a gold guinea. He did so well renting Birdsboro that he bought it in 1796. Plant Manager Matthew Brooke married his daughter and Brooke-Barde descendants have owned and operated Birdsboro ever since. Chairman now of the Birdsboro board, which contains six Brookes, is tall, 70-year-old Robert Edward Brooke, grandson of Matthew. President since...
...lobby of the White House Executive Offices in Washington, newshawks stopped chatty, Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, who had just come from a talk with the President, and asked for a "few choice words" on the abdication and marriage of the Duke of Windsor. Chatted the longtime Member of Parliament from Sutton Division, Plymouth: "They'll be very few and very choice, because I'm a politician...