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Past the first tee of the Memphis Country Club the convoy moved at a snail's pace. Along the walk bordering the course strolled a group of girls in shorts. From the trucks came a drumfire of soldiers' shouts-"Yoo-Hoo-o-o"-"Hi, baby"-a fanfare of whistling...
...Most Exalted Orange Blossom of ShunSheo Province, her royal highness, Princess Hoo Daat, will preside at the most noble launching of this latest unofficial adjunct of the Imperial Chinese Navy...
...Boston newsman who first wrote that big, bronzed Stirling Hayden, with his head of unkempt, golden hair, "ought to be in the movies." For months afterward hard-boiled sailors would shout at him across the water: "Yoo hoo! You ought to be in the movies!" When Hayden lost Aldebaran in Charleston, his friend Larry O'Toole, a Boston artist and member of the crew, remembered the newsman, looked him up, through him got in touch with a Hollywood agent. The agent took some photographs of Hayden to Paramount and showed them to Edward Griffith, who was at that moment...
...Fifth Century came the Angles, from somewhere on the bleak coast of the Baltic. Ships brought them, and when their kings died they were buried in ships with their bows pointing toward the sea. Last week on a hilltop estate near Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, diggers unearthed for a Mrs. E. M. Pretty a funeral ship that had lain untouched under a mound of earth some 13 centuries...
...Oslo Kathleen Norris whose eight books have been translated into 13 languages, Sigrid Boo (rhymes with Hoo) at 40 makes her first U. S. bow with The Long Dream. As befits the country that originated the langlauf (long-distance ski race), her novel is slow in starting, spends nearly half its length on the heroine's retrospective thoughts during a train journey back to her native town after seven years' absence...