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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Catalina Island, Calif., Charlie Chaplin rowed away from his yacht Panacea to get a little exercise, lost an oar, failed to start his outboard motor, drifted aimlessly for two hours before being rescued...
While U. S. correspondents in Europe's capitals were wondering how to get news back to their papers (see col. 3), at home their editors were pondering how to play what news they got. Two conflicting impulses made the U. S. press sound like a man arguing with himself. One was a voice of passion urging him to show his indignation over Führer Hitler's aggression. The other was a voice of reason counseling detachment to keep...
...editorials the Daily News was saying: "We must keep as cool as we can unless we want to get into this war." As usual, most intemperate of all the Press's many voices were the cartoonists, who emitted characteristically simplified cries of horror, scorn and indignation...
...Information is a tall, white stone building in Bloomsbury (taken over from the University of London), a mile away from Fleet Street. Here are issued all official press bulletins. A teletype printer flashes them to newsrooms and agencies in Fleet Street. But most reporters, British and foreign alike, get their news direct from the mimeograph, write their copy in the great hundred-foot-square entrance hall of the Ministry, gas masks slung over their shoulders as they work, surrounded by thick mugs of bitter India...
...pack that had to be opened after the jumper left the plane. It worked. Les Irvin's first pack parachute was made of cumbersome cotton. Later he aroused the interest of Silk Dealer George Wake in making better silk chutes. They incorporated just in time to get a 500-chute order from the U. S. Army, soon found a market when pilots began leaping from ailing planes into the Caterpillar Club (Star Member Charles A. Lindbergh; four emergency jumps...