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...four-year feud between Philadelphia's Coal and Autogiro Tycoon Raymond Pitcairn and his ousted gardener literally burst into flame last week. The sprawling rubbish dump the gardener has been carefully developing right across from Pitcairn's neatly manicured estate caught fire, and the Bryn Athyn fire department cheerfully let the eyesore burn...
Great tongues of flame leap from the sun, a half-million miles into space, sink back and leap again. Sometimes, strangely, clouds of gases appear out of nowhere far above the sun and blazing streamers lick back toward the sun's surface like prankish backward-movies of a high diver. What elements, astronomers have puzzled, form the corona? Where do the backward-flowing flames come from...
David McLean, a tenant of the Duke's, saw the Messerschmitt crash and puff into flame, saw also the white bloom of the parachute drifting down through the dusk Armed with a pitchfork, he found Hess lying on the ground with a broken ankle covered by his chute. In perfect English he said to McLean: "Will you take me to Dungavel to see the Duke of Hamilton?" Instead, McLean took him to his cottage, called the Home Guard. The local Home Guard officer arrived, sternly asked in pidgin-English: "You Nazi enemy?" Hess asked again to see the Duke...
Whatever curiosity cinemaddicts may have about early Louisiana might easily be satiated by coupling Lady From Louisiana with Marlene Dietrich's The Flame of New Orleans (TIME, May 12) on a double bill. Both pictures met some time ago when Miss Dietrich reportedly tried to get Mr. Wayne for her leading man in The Flame. This failure may have disappointed him. His deportment in support of capable Miss Munson is completely disinterested...
...wrote this about 1890, lived long enough to see spurts of flame, among hollow murmurs, crumble Cambridge and all of Britain. A few hours after Sir James's death, by some curious magic, died frail, humorous, French-born Lady Frazer...