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...dirigible, Los Angeles, largest of the United States Navy fleet. made am unexpected rip to Boston and vicinity shortly after dusk last night. The great ship, which is the only, one of its size in this country since the ill-fated Shenandoah disaster in 1927, circled over Cambridge bound for parts unknown...
Interviewed, Mrs. Louise Mulligan, superintendent of the building, said: "The frogs really are terrible, although some don't mind them as bad as the mosquitoes. Usually the frogs start just about the time the mosquitoes first get through the screens, about dusk. . . . We've tried to poison them with bichloride of mercury tablets . . . but ... I thought they even sang louder after that...
...down the coast. At sunrise 36 hours later, scouting planes made their first con tact with the Black fleet moving shoreward in two sections. The old Arkansas, with the heat 133° in her engine room, vainly chased three hostile cruisers who shipped out of range at 32 knots. At dusk another heavy Black column was sighted and viciously attacked by light sea craft in a night engagement. They completely demolished the flying deck of the Black's Langley, thus gaining for the Blues undisputed air control. Thereafter, fighting re solved itself into a series of disjointed engagements...
...sneaks away from her Southern co-ed institution for a party with a would-be sophisticated boyfriend. He gets drunk, runs out of liquor, insists on going to a lonely country bootlegger's he knows about. Almost there, he wrecks his car and the two find themselves stranded at dusk at the bootlegger's, among five hard men, one hard woman. The boy gets drunk again, the girl is terrified but cannot get away. This typical cinema situation does not turn out like a cinema. For one horror-filled night the girl escapes her fate. Next day the boy comes...
...compatriot by birth, Andre Kormendi, last month. "It had almost no colors. It was like a strip of fog. . . . One saw tiny dabs of Neapolitan yellow, a little blue and green, but all of it melted into the black-white-grey which covered his palette softly as the dusk covered his studio...