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Born. To Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 31, and Mary Lee Epling Fairbanks, 29, his second wife (first: Joan Crawford): their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles.
Hollywood's swank Cocoanut Grove was aflutter with ermine wraps and shimmering gowns as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made its twelfth annual awards. To Robert Donat for his role in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and to Vivien Leigh for her Scarlett O'Hara in Gone...
Not long ago Otto Ohlson laid up "B2" (a Dodge sedan fitted with railroad wheels to carry Ohlson on inspection tours over his lonely tracks) and "went outside" (Alaskan for getting out of Alaska-A. R. R. employes get a 26-day vacation with pay each year so they can...
In an ordinary year's work Otto Ohlson has to cope with: temperatures to 50° below zero, 20-foot snowdrifts, avalanches, live glaciers, moose caught in the tracks, and, in the northernmost part, perpetually frozen subsoil that requires a special roadbed. During 110 days of summer he has...
In the winter he puts them back up again. Then they are about 30% above the U. S. average. Passengers pay six cents a mile. His schedule is six trains per week in each direction in summer, three in winter. In general it costs so much to get things to...