Word: islande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British bombing attack on the German base-island of Sylt off Denmark's southwest corner. Obvious object: to destroy the extensive anti-aircraft establishment there, pave the way for other raids on the naval bases. No results were announced but this week German civilians were evacuated...
Also well-known is Director Jean Giraudoux, who seemed likely to make France's war news exciting if any Frenchman was going to. But French official war communiques, while a little newsier than the British, were as guarded as Devil's Island. It was as though the French were reluctant to make big claims lest they have to retract them later...
...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...
Married. John Macrae, 72, longtime president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), famed for his white whiskers, pink shirts, and garrulous letters to the trade; and comely Opal Wheeler, fortyish, musicologist and schoolmistress; he for the second time, she for the first time; in Rosebank, Staten Island...
Meantime a tiny city is abuilding on Canton Island, only overnight stop not yet ready for guests. Last week a freighter steamed south with equipment for a 24-room transients' hotel, including an air-conditioning system, bar, shower baths...