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...August 15, 1914-the end of eight years' struggle during which Dr. William Crawford Gorgas licked yellow fever and General George Washington Goethals' 50,000 ditch diggers licked 200,000,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock-the day the Panama Railroad's steamship Ancon made the first transit from Atlantic to Pacific...
Lord Balniel, 38, is the eldest son and heir of the 27th Earl of Crawford. He is a director of the Bank-of-England-controlled $28,000,000 Lancashire Steel Corp., Ltd. He is a member of Parliament, one of 415 Conservative Party members who give Prime Minister Chamberlain his majority, crisis after crisis. So are two of his brothers-in-law. So is his wife's brother-in-law and the ex-husband of another of her sisters. So are the husbands of three of her first cousins. Viscount Wolmer, another Tory M.P., is distantly related...
...history of tennis. Long famed as a Giant Killer, Tumblebug Grant, who wears shorts to avoid wear & tear on his trouser knees, will be watched by the Davis Cup Committee more closely than ever this year. Among the tennis giants he has harassed into submission are Jack Crawford, Adrian Quist and Jack Bromwich, the three formidable Australians who (unless they lose the Interzone final) will face the U. S. team in the Davis Cup challenge round at Philadelphia on September...
...Crawford, traveling salesman for a picture-frame firm, always hoped to make more than $30 a week, but never got much more, even after his boss bought him an automobile. His wife moped in her mother's big, heavily mortgaged house in Brooklyn, blamed herself when their baby died, blamed Bob when, after a gloomy weekend, he seemed glad to get back on the road. Bob took to padding his expense account, almost slept with a shopgirl in Boston, began to feel trapped. But when the old lady died, they found an insurance policy...
...pictures, another $2,500,000 to advertise them. Headliners: Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here (shelved in 1936); The Wizard of Oz in Technicolor; Northwest Passage with Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy and Robert Taylor; Quo Vadis?; The Women with Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. M-G-M will also release Producer David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Biggest M-G-M questionmark is fox-faced Hedy Lamarr, who after seven months of grooming at M-G-M was borrowed by Producer Walter Wanger and made an overnight sensation in Algiers...