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Copilot. In Los Angeles, after arresting Lyle Gann for drunken driving, police searched his car, in the trunk compartment found his wife Wilda, who explained: "I knew he would get drunk, so I stowed away so I could drive him home...
Island in the Sky (Warner) opens with a crash landing in the frozen Canadian North and closes, naturally enough, with the rescue of the survivors. Based on a novel by Ernest Gann, the film gives Director William (Battleground) Wellman a fine documentary chance to explore the hazards of arctic flying and to train his camera on a bleak but beautiful terrain (the picture was made, not in Labrador, but in the Donner Lake region of northern California). What slows things down is the high-blown rhetoric of the script, the tediously familiar characterizations of the flyers, and the endless invisible...
...Friends. By this time the "Gann-Longworth feud" was one of the nation's prime concerns. When it became known that Dolly would make her first appearance as Second Lady of the Land at a dinner to be given by Chilean Ambassador Carlos Dávila, citizens who wanted to witness her hour of triumph bid $100 for an invitation to the party. Finally, at 8:00 p.m. on April 11, 1929, buxom (180 Ibs.) Dolly Gann took the arm of diminutive (100 Ibs.) Carlos Dávila and marched to the head of the table. Alice Roosevelt Longworth...
...Democratic victory in 1932 eclipsed Dolly Gann's star, but it did not break her spirit. She campaigned for Landon in 1936, spent much of her energy and determination on the Red Cross and Salvation Army. When her beloved Republicans finally came back to power in Washington last month, she served along with Alice Longworth, now 68, on Ike's inaugural reception committee. Last week 8 7-year-old Dolly Gann died of a sudden heart attack. Alice Longworth, looking back sentimentally over the years, was "very distressed" at the news. Dolly, she said...
...proper disposition of Mr. Gann was also moot. Asked whether he must be invited to all the functions which Dolly attended, Alice Longworth reportedly said: "Mr. Gann's place is in the home." After Dolly's victory, Nebraska's late Senator George Norris, friend of the underprivileged, said: "I had the impression all along that Mrs. Gann would get what she wanted. Mr. Gann, however, is left wholly unprovided for-which is exactly as I feared. I refuse to abandon him in this crisis. I do not intend to let this matter rest until I am assured...