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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iron Mask (United Artists-Edward Small) is a sword-rattling, Dumascene version of one of the wildest stabs ever made at history by that extravagant Romancer Alexander Dumas. Its hypothesis: that when Louis XIII's good Queen Anne was brought to bed in 1638, she gave birth to twins. Because dynastically two heirs would have been worse than none, the King reared one son as the future Louis XIV, palmed off the other as the son of his loyal Gascon guard, d'Artagnan (Warren William...
Died. Brigadier-General Hon. Charles Granville Bruce, 73, British World War veteran, who at 56 vainly dedicated his life to scaling Mount Everest; in London. Though General Bruce's two expeditions (1922 and 1924) failed to reach the top of the 29,141-ft. Himalayan mountain, none ever climbed so high...
...Deal. On leaving he turned over the presidency of his American Car & Foundry Co. (second largest U. S. railroad car maker) to a little white-haired lawyer, Charles J. Hardy, who had been the company's General Counsel. Charlie Hardy has been head of American Car & Foundry ever since...
...world's fair ever charged more than 50? admission until gardenia-wearing Grover Aloysius Whalen engraved his $157,000,000 image on Long Island's Flushing Meadows. His, however, was to be a fair of fairs, the "World of Tomorrow." He talked about 40,000,000 customers and he figured on 60,000,000 (10,000,000 a month from May through October) to spend $56 apiece, bring a billion dollars worth of business to the Fair and New York City. Flamboyant Grover Whalen set the entrance fee at 75?. Last week he was learning something...
...Black River, the Salween. He never found it, but he traveled some 3,000 miles of unexplored shingle on the freezing-cold roof of the world, earned the Murchison Grant of the Royal Geographical Society for his pains. There were plenty of them. Salween is probably the cheerfullest book ever written of discomforts ranging from intense heat among blood-sucking leeches to intense cold and a face so cracked by snow-burn "it oozed all over like a roasting joint...