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...being towed to a scrapper's yard when the gales hit. The Warspite was swept aground near a Cornish town named Mousehole. Then the big seas lifted her close to shore. A lifesaving crew, risking destruction, got the crewmen safely ashore. But the Warspite was doomed to final breakup on the jagged rocks...
...personality is shown, with little sentimental emphasis on either the ups or the downs. Again, although there is the usual trumped up battle between the hero's music and his wife, it is less ferocious and more human than in the Gershwin and Porter epics, and ends on a breakup instead of in a clinch. Best of all is the tasteful portrayal of Jolson's mother and cantor father, who are given some dimensions instead of being molded into a minority group comedy type...
...Tory councils, was just shooting the political breeze. But his suggestion was not at all fantastic. No first-rate Liberal Party leader is in sight to take the place of 72-year-old Mackenzie King when he retires or dies, and many politicos see the prospect of a breakup when the party loses the man who has directed it since...
...Article 27, the famed land-for-the-Indians proviso, legalizes breakup of big estates and prohibits division of "small properties." The new amendment, by finally denning small properties, would do away with the confusion that often led gun-toting squatters to move in on peaceful neighbors...
Progress made since the original meeting of 25 delegates convened in New York a week age last Tuesday has exceeded the most far-flung estimates, after almost a week of exhausting sessions averaging ten hours a day, with a breakup into smaller groups each evening to study the city...