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...Washington in the days before Rafael Leonidas Trujillo seized power. Their "army," which now included half the University of Havana football squad, drilled with bazookas, flamethrowers and machetes. Their "air power," they figured, would surpass the Dictator's, even though Cuba last week seized part of it: a Catalina flying boat, two Ventura medium bombers and a four-engined Liberator. Despite publicity enough for a Hollywood premiere (TIME, Aug. 11), the Dominican plotters were still preparing...
...swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...
...baseball's never-never land of spring training, optimism ran as high as hotel bills. From Havana to Santa Catalina everyone was eating on the cuff and getting sunburned. Ballplayers loafed, with a studied attempt at ease, in the lobby of Havana's de luxe Hotel Nacional. At St. Petersburg, where the champion St. Louis Cardinals trained (and were picked last week as the odds-on favorite to cop the 1947 National League pennant), barelegged players galloped around the clubhouse after practice, yipping and snapping towels. All clubs are tied for first place-until the season opens...
Canadian Vickers Ltd. built the [Montreal] factory for the Government to manufacture Catalina aircraft during the war. Canadian Vickers Ltd. discontinued its aircraft operations on Nov. u, 1944, and has had nothing to do with the operation of the factory since that time...
California's dressmakers whooped it up for their new fashions. (Items: a baby blue fur coat, a $50 hand-painted bathing suit, a girdle decorated with cherubs lolling on clouds.) Cole of California readied an aquacade, Catalina Mills had a Catalina Island beach show, Tabak of California was going to parade his models on the rim of the Grand Canyon...