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...Leftist Spain last week the regular staff correspondents and Novelist Ernest Hemingway were looking for survivors of the 450 Abies & Georgies who for a whole gallant day held a hilltop near Gandesa against the sweeping offensive of the Spanish Rightists (see above). About 150 were said to have escaped Death. After finding eight, Mr. Hemingway wrote: "When we saw them at noon they were barefooted and had just been given clothes. They had been naked since they had crossed the Ebro River at daylight. The Ebro, they said, was a fast-flowing, very cold river, and six others...
...Behind the booklet is last year's record road toll-40,300 dead. Dramatic centrepiece of "Death Begins at 40" is Grant Wood's painting, Death on the Ridge Road, which shows a big red truck about to crash head-on into a black sedan at a hilltop curve. Pages of statistics prove that most fatal accidents occur to experienced male drivers in the prime of life going straight ahead on dry roads in clear weather-but at high speed. Most arresting fact: In all its history the U. S. has had but 15 years* of war, with...
Muni is dreamy, sensitive, unpractical. When he bought a ranch in San Fernando Valley he mistook the irrigation stand-pipes for flower pots and planted geraniums in them. When the water was turned on, the geraniums flew into the air. He sold the ranch last spring for a hilltop home in Palos Verde, where he swims in his pool, plays with his dog and looks through a telescope at ships on the Pacific. He is never seen in Hollywood nightspots and takes no part in actors' disputes. He attended the mass meeting of the Screen Actors Guild last...
...America was holding its eighth annual meet last week, the air one day was heavy with a threat of squally weather. Lightning glimmered occasionally in the distance, and mountainous dark storm-clouds or "thunderheads," with flat bottoms and bulging, shifting domes were moving in on Harris Hill. On the hilltop, where the meet was in progress, Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds of faces turned up at him from...
...years old, living alone in an old farmhouse in a little hilltop village in New Hampshire. I'm doing my own cooking and housework, for my beloved wife died in February...