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...Ronson cigaret lighter; one Waltham wrist watch; one U.S.-made nail clipper; a colored picture of a tiger (possibly picked up during the Malayan campaign); a helmet with hollow pads in which was secreted a girl's photograph; a mosquito headnet ful of rice. . . . One other item lying near by turned out to be a white silk shirt, made in Sydney. Don't ask me what a Nip would be doing with a white silk shirt...
Every week now photographic negatives of TIME'S pages are rushed by clipper across the Atlantic, flown from London to Stockholm...
...Creole family in Manila. "There was one wholly exceptional young man in Manila, tall, blond, aquiline, blue-eyed, an American, a Protestant, and unmistakably virtuous." He was George Sturgis, 32. This marriage was for him extremely happy. But George Sturgis, after taking his family to Boston on the clipper ship Fearless, died in the midst of a commercial failure. same ship. Years later, at the start of the Civil War, Josefina moved to Madrid, met him again and married him. "I have no evidence as to what really may have brought these two most rational persons, under no illusion about...
Died. Elinor Sutherland Glyn, 78, the sex novel's impeccable grandmother; in London. At 27, red-haired Elinor Sutherland attracted longtime bachelor and coupon-clipper Clayton Glyn with her wasp waist, green eyes, and the social splash she made when four white-tied suitors leaped into a lake at her command. In 1892 (she claimed) he hired Brighton's swimming baths for their exclusive honeymoon use. In Three Weeks (1907) she revealed the effects on each other of a Swiss hotel, a Russian enchantress, a clean young Englishman, and a tigerskin rug. In Hollywood in 1927 she modernized...
News is sold in a Lisbon black market. Smuggled, uncensored copies of U.S. newspapers and magazines find their way to neutral Portugal in the hands of seamen or of Clipper passengers. There they bring fancy prices. The buyers: Axis agents who want the latest dope on U.S. strikes, race riots, political discords, and who flock to Lisbon's airports and wharves every time a plane or ship comes in. Single, uncensored copies of the New York Times have sold for as high as $60. One copy of LIFE brought...