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...main billing of the evening, "Sea Devils," goes in for the usual he-man McLaglen activities with the Coast Guard offering a convenient excuse for several good shots of icebergs, ships in distress, breeches buoy, and dozens of manly blows between the smiling Tim O'Shay, (Preston Foster) and Bo'suns Mate Malone (McLaglen). Ida Lupino as "Doris," Malone's daughter, acts as a rather insipid if adequate apex of the eternal triangle over which Malone, the father, tries to exercise parental influence. In spite of the overworked sickbed, hero, and may-the-best-man-win falderol the picture...
Item: a foul-mouthed police inspector (Stanley G. Wood) laughs heartily at every fresh evidence of human distress...
Senator Joe Robinson ejaculated: "I repudiate the implication . . . that the Constitution of my country and yours renders the national Government power less to relieve distress. . . . There is prac tically no limitation on the appropriating power of Congress except that which is imposed by conscience and a sense of duty. ... I would hide my face in shame if I held that there is no power save that possessed by those who are helpless to face the storm and peril...
Roger Merriman's hair (1) stood on end Monday night as his name was bandied about on the all night program on Station WAAB, causing the master of Eliot House no end of distress...
Given a separate trial, Mrs. Muench was acquitted of the kidnapping (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935), but her troubles were far from over. In August 1935, six weeks before her trial, she had announced that she had given birth to a son, "a gift from God in my time of distress." Remarkable to newshawks was Mrs. Muench's child-bearing at the age of 42 after 23 years of childless married life. When Dr. Muench, who is not an obstetrician, declared he was the attending physician at the birth, the press began to investigate. Soon they found an unwed Pennsylvania...