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...survivors. Based on a novel by Ernest Gann, the film gives Director William (Battleground) Wellman a fine documentary chance to explore the hazards of arctic flying and to train his camera on a bleak but beautiful terrain (the picture was made, not in Labrador, but in the Donner Lake region of northern California). What slows things down is the high-blown rhetoric of the script, the tediously familiar characterizations of the flyers, and the endless invisible choirs that form the musical background of every shot of storm-cleared...
Vigilant Momma. In 1932, while attempting to put Korea's case before an indifferent League of Nations in Geneva, Rhee met Francesca Maria Barbara Donner, 34, the daughter of a family of Viennese iron merchants. Two years later they were married in a Methodist ceremony in New York. The Rhees live in a modest mansion on the rolling hillside behind Seoul, only 30 miles south of the front. In their household Madame Rhee maintains constant vigilance...
...opposite sides of San Francisco Bay, two teams of University of California researchers hold different theories about the cause of hardening of the arteries. On the east side, in the Berkeley campus' Donner Laboratory, Dr. John Gofman leans to the theory that giant cholesterol molecules are to blame (TIME, June 5, 1950). Now, from the University's School of Medicine on the west side, comes strong evidence to the contrary. Cholesterol, according to Drs. Henry D. Moon and James F. Rinehart, does not cause hardening of the arteries, and is not even much of a factor until...
Young Stevenson and William Donner Roosevelt, 20-year-old son of Elliott Roosevelt, originally had picked other roommates for their sophomores years but those boys left school last spring...
...Rhee married Franziska Donner, an Austrian whom he had met while attending a League of Nations meeting in Geneva. Twenty years younger than Rhee, Franziska was attractive and chirrupy. She managed efficiently her impractical husband's finances. Said Rhee in 1941, "When I married a foreign lady, my family was very displeased, but they found out it was a perfect marriage." At parties, however, Rhee has been heard to tell Mrs. Rhee, "Now hush. You have talked enough...