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...dazzling floodlights burst on. Down into the gleaming sea of light glided the purple & white Winnie Mae, dancing lightly up the runway at precisely midnight. It was more than the crowd could bear. Thousands and thousands of excited men & women climbed through, under and over the fences, surged toward the taxiing plane, behaved much as another historic crowd behaved one night in 1927 at Le Bourget...
...Washington, relayed them to the State Department, got replies and shot them back to Mr. Skvirsky. The upshot was permission for the Soviet pilot Levanovsky to deliver Mattern to Nome, where Brewer Friedman's rescue plane will be turned over to him for a plucky last lap. Winnie Mae. ''Do be careful," Mrs. Mae Laine Post begged. "O. K.," replied her stocky, swart, one-eyed husband, Wiley. A few minutes later Pilot Post climbed into his big white-&-purple Lockheed monoplane Winnie Mae and roared away from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., on his second flight around...
...Sinclair Lewis' Ann Viewers. It would also tackle Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham's long-neglected but deeply moving story of a cripple. Fox announced it had bought the rights to Music in the Air, planned a series of shorts made from old nickelodeon cinemas. Paramount ballyhooed Mae West louder than Marlene Dietrich, planned to stop sending its feature pictures to outlying districts before they have been screened in Paramount's pretentious string of urban theatres...
...Paris early this spring handsome old General Zakhari Mdivani died. To bury him Princes David and Serge left their California wives and wells, drew most of the cash out of their California banks and rushed abroad. Last week Wives Mae Murray and Mary McCormic, convinced that their absent husbands are highly solvent, were in court suing them respectively for divorce and separate maintenance. Brother David, according to Princess Mae whose divorce suit charges "unreasonable jealousy," has been drawing $500 monthly from the oil company for which she "put up the money." Naming $1,000 as Brother Serge...
...have the most terrible dreams, do you too, Mae?" cried Princess Mary. "No," snapped Princess Mae shortly, "I haven't had enough sleep to dream...