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...anything more than a routine crossing of the wintry Atlantic. Then, west and north of the Bay of Biscay, the ship was enveloped by an awesome storm. A black sky pressed down. The horizon vanished in flying spindrift. As solid seas began thundering over the vessel's bow, lier radio picked up a warning: worse was to come-the fiercest December gales in 22 years were howling along the European coast...
...Publisher Edward Anthony, who spent several hours a day smoothing feathers ruffled by Ruppel, let the dervish whirl for a while. Then Ruppel cooled off and his staff calmed down. Crowell-Col-lier's top management was prepared to string along with Ruppel: in one year, Collier's advertising linage had dropped 15%, and Crowell-Collier's profits had plummeted from $4,866,000 to $2,419,-ooo. For these deep-seated troubles, a drastic cure was needed. Louis Ruppel was about the most drastic remedy to be found anywhere...
...from the State Department and other Government agencies-War, Navy, OWI, the Federal Communications Commission, and the supersecret Office of Strategic Services. Material from some of the documents had appeared in Amerasia (which had used one OSS report verbatim) and in Free-Lance Gayn's articles in Col lier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Some of the documents, said J. Edgar Hoover, had been found in the possession of those arrested...
Damon Runyon chipped in. So did newspapermen in Denver. Funds came from Author-Scenarist Gene Fowler, Col lier's Editor William Chenery, Colorado Governor Ralph L. Carr, New York Mirror Publisher Charles B. McCabe, Manhattan Drama Critic Burns Mantle, many another journalist and ex-journalist who had cut his teeth on Denver papers, in the good old days...
BUDAPEST--Flects of huge German transport planes, each carrying nearly 100 Nazi troops, sped over Budapest into the Balkaus today while Rumania hurriedly strengthened lier military precautions against any surprise British bombings of the Rumanian oil fields...