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Sunday morning the Witnesses climaxed their convention with a mass baptism for 2,500 in the pool of a Detroit amusement park. Candidates arrived in a mile-long caravan of cars, were garbed in backless swimming suits, trunks, nightgowns, house dresses and play suits. When the Witnesses were still cluttering the pool at noon, the park's regulars grew impatient. The Witnesses obligingly speeded the remaining baptisms to a six-second dunking apiece...
Princess Josephine Charlotte, Prince Baudouin and Prince Albert, children of Belgium's King Leopold III, fled from France to Portugal in a caravan headed by onetime Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland. Accompanied by members of the Bourbon-Parma family, onetime Empress Zita of Austria and her son Archduke Otto, pretender to the nonexistent Austrian throne, and five of his brothers & sisters arrived the next night. Already in jampacked Lisbon was Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot. En route was onetime French Premier and Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Also on the way was onetime Austrian millionaire Baron Eugen Rothschild and his American...
Along the steaming highway man and beast jogged, followed by a caravan of 100 cars. Duke-ridden by a no-lb. jockey the first 14 miles, a lighter boy the next 14, and finally a little girl - was trotted for eight minutes, walked for four and rubbed down every ten miles at the request of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The doctor, who fasted for eight days prior to the race to "get the poison out of his system," had no S. P. C. A. to protect him. He just loped along, stopping now & then...
...hour (see p. 29). Great Britain and France took precautions all around the Mediterranean. In Malta, Enrico Mizzi, Nationalist leader of the Council of Government, and a Catholic Actionist named Herbert Ganado were interned. In Cairo and Alexandria 700 fifth-columnist suspects were clapped into internment camps. An evacuation caravan took civilians away from Menton on the French-Italian frontier, prepared to evacuate Monte Carlo next...
...Thousand Times Neigh is a Ford's-eye-view of the problems of Dobbin, a $1,000 steed of cloth and leather, with movable eyes, ears, lips, jaws, tail. Horse-players: Vladimir Vassilieff, Kari Karnikovski. From 1903 to the present, Dobbin foots it featly while such top-notch Caravan dancers as Marie Jeanne and Nicki Magallanes mime the rise of the Ford-often on the toes of their ballet slippers. The music of NBC Staff Composer Tom Bennett, canned on a sound track for the first time in ballet, accompanies them tunefully, if not with great distinction...