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The C-54 transport was nine hours out of Fairbanks, Alaska, on Thanksgiving night when Captain Albert J. Fenton raised Tacoma's McChord Field. What was the weather? The answer crackled back: visibility three-quarters of a mile, ceiling zero. Pilot Fenton asked to be talked in on ground...
"Cold Valor." Franklin hobnobbed with royalty and other big-name people -Mary Garden, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. At another extreme, he once engaged in a memorable ten-day spree with a tribe of back-jungle Mexican Indians who were fascinated by his red hair, and took steps...
Meanwhile, Hawaii's new and elaborate tidal wave warning system had gone into action. From Arizona, and Sitka and Fairbanks in Alaska, reports from other seismographs were flashed to the Coast and Geodetic Survey's central clearinghouse for wave warnings on Oahu. The quake was plotted in the...
Planned were pictures starring Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Harold Lloyd, Greta Garbe, W. C. Fields, and the Marx Brothers.
The others: a 1913 four-reeler with James K. Hackett and Alan Hale, a 1922 adaptation with Lewis Stone, Ramon Novarro and Alice Terry, a 1937 production with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Raymond Massey and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.