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Still droning on, Ole Miss eclipsed the record of 647 hr. set by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine at St. Louis in 1930-unofficial because their instruments failed to satisfy the National Aeronautical Association. When the Colonels Key finally landed July 1 with two records in the bag, they had made some 75 refueling contacts, flown more than...
...Hearst, boasts that the opposition has never beaten him. Twelve years ago, he says, he had the idea for a fast working camera but did nothing about it until he saw the Tribune's strips. Then he buttonholed the Times's Editor-in-Chief Albert E. Dale, offered to produce a camera that would match the Tribune's pictures for some $900. He closeted himself in his laboratory for three weeks, worked 20 hours a day, emerged with a box 6 in. by 6 in. by 8 in. locked and sealed, and a bill...
...JIMMIE DALE AND THE MISSING HOUR -Frank L. Packard-Crime Club ($2). Again the Gray Seal plunges into the Underworld and, exhibiting all his old deftness, quickly repays a debt of honor...
...Some lean cows obstructing a muddy Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table...
Sworn in as a deputy, Shevlin has complete discretion over Jane Dale. He uses it to take her duck hunting, feed her peanuts, pay her fine when Judge Clummerhorn, as game warden, arrests her for shooting out of season. By the time they are on their way to be married in the one car that has been concocted out of the two wrecks, everything that can be done with the situation of two people stranded in a hick town has been done, effortlessly and good-humoredly, with excellent results as entertainment. If It's a Small World invites comparison...