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...recent visit to New York, Atwood told about the most troublesome story he had ever worked on for TIME. It happened near Cordova, Alaska, and involved two boys in a rowboat, who had taken a potshot at an "empty" shed on shore. The shed turned out to be packed with dynamite and was blown skyhigh. Atwood received a long list of questions about the incident. But Cordova was 250 miles and a three-day boat trip away. So he relayed the wire to a friend there, sent the answers back to New York. Discrepancies in the story turned...
...muscles nervously, "Mickey" Jelke, pudgy heir to an oleomargarine fortune, last week heard a blue-ribbon jury pronounce him guilty of enticing 19-year-old Model Pat Ward into a life of high-priced prostitution, and of attempting to duplicate this success with onetime Hatcheck Girl Marguerite Cordova...
Audience Participation. In Cordova, Md., after both high-school basketball teams ran out of substitutes, Cordova, with a borrowed spectator, beat St. Michael's, with a drafted cheerleader...
Auld Acquaintance. In Van Nuys, Calif., Angel Cordova explained why he had smashed a beer bottle through the windshield of Carlos Carrillo's car: "I thought he was a friend of mine who I thought...
...plot: the king of Basin Street (Arturo de Cordova) is run out of town by the mother (Irene Rich) of a music-minded debutante (Dorothy Patrick) who likes him and the short-haired music played in Arturo's basement by Louis Armstrong (Louis Armstrong). Arturo and Louis move on to Chicago and finally to world success, which is excuse enough for everybody to kiss and make...