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Like the terrible secret of the U. S. Navy collier Cyclops (TIME, July 14), the exact fate of France's dirigible Dixmude has remained a mystery since 1923. Last week it was reported that the French Government might send an expedition into the Sahara to trace stories of desert tribesmen that the ship's wreckage lay about 300 mi. south of In Salah. No European, it was said, had ever penetrated there...
...Author. Ogden Nash, 29, was a Harvardman for one year, left to teach at St. George's School, Newport, then went to Manhattan to sell bonds, which he found hard to do. Onetime adman for Barren Collier, Doubleday Page, this month he joined the editorial staff of the New Yorker...
Divorced. Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1919) editor of Collier's Weekly, onetime (1921-24) U. S. Ambassador to Italy; by Mrs. Eva Sanderson Child, his third wife (Wives Elizabeth Scott and Maude Parker both divorced him). Charges: extreme cruelty...
Over the round, bald head of Sportswriter Grantland Rice hovers the crown of All-American arbiter that was worn by the late great Walter Camp. But other U. S. sportswriters did not wait to hear the selections over which he was mulling for Collier's magazine last week in Chicago. They chose their own 1930 All-American football teams. Their consensus was as follows...
...ought to know, as some time ago I wrote a railroad story which appeared in Collier's, and made the mistake of having an engineerman drive his train...