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Latest edition of the Elizabethan epics, complete with duel, is "The Sea Hawk," which is a long-winded account of Geoffrey Thorpe, a nautical counterpart of Jesse James, who drained the Spanish Main of every ingot of gold t'other side of Lisbon. He gets his fingers burned in Panama, re-crosses the Atlantic as a galley-slave, beats up on the Spanish crew, sails the galleon to England and single-handed saves the British Empire from the Spanish Armada. All of which goes to show that England cannot be invaded,--we-hope-we-hope-we-hope...
...Cried Geoffrey Shakespeare, Under Secretary for the Dominions and Chairman of the Evacuation Board: "This deed will shock the world...
Last week a successful measles vaccine was announced by Drs. Joseph Stokes Jr. of U. of Pa.'s medical school and Geoffrey William Rake of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. They obtain active virus from the blood or throat washings of measly moppets, treat this material with ether or by filtering to remove bacteria, pass it into chicken eggshells through a small hole made with a dentist's drill, inject it into the chick embryo's outer membrane. After allowing four or five days for the virus to propagate, they open the eggs, remove the membrane...
...they can. The ministries relating to defense are at Melbourne on the seacoast, and the easygoing Cabinet likes to meet there or in Sydney, where it uses the air-conditioned offices of Amalgamated Wireless Co. (The Government offices are not air-conditioned). One morning last week Army Minister Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street found in Melbourne that there was nothing for it but he must fly up to Canberra, taking Air Minister James V. Fairbairn, Vice President of the Executive Council Sir Henry Somer Gullett and Chief of the Australian General Staff Lieut. General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White. The party...
...English captains who, while Queen Elizabeth haggles over the cost of building a navy to face the Spanish Armada, wage an undeclared war on Spanish shipping wherever they find it. In history, deadliest of the sea hawks was Sir Francis Drake. In the picture, he is symbolized by Captain Geoffrey Thorpe. Sea Hawk Thorpe begins his career by a swashbuckling attack on a Spanish man-o'-war, carrying King Philip's ambassador (Claude Rains) and his proud niece (Brenda Marshall). To appease Queen Bess (Flora Robson) for this shocking violation of neutrality, Hawk Thorpe gives...