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...Mare's Nest. Like some other U.S. publishers, Hearst has been saved by the war, which shot circulation up, reduced the size of his papers, and brought him all the advertising his papers could carry. Besides sharing the general prosperity, Hearst has untangled himself from as complicated, a cat's cradle of corporate ties as ever kept a law firm out of mischief...
...Scott was repaired at the Mare Island Navy Yard, and a full length movie entitled "Navy Yard" was based on the work done there...
...Pennsylvania?" "That was Baltimore," said someone, as they flashed past a large town. "Egad, what a nest of ugly peasants!" snapped the Duke. In the "cold, caliginous predawn" the huntsmen forded the Delaware. By afternoon they were thundering through the heart of New Jersey. At nightfall Hugo's mare grabbed the fox with her teeth, tossed it ten feet into the air. The world's longest and screwiest fox hunt (200 miles in 45 hours) was over. So, it soon developed, were Hugo's worries...
...Mare Island mutineers heard their sentences last week. The 50 Negro sailors who refused to load explosives on a Pacific-bound munitions ship (TIME, Oct. 2 et seq) were reduced to the lowest rank (apprentice seaman), given stiff prison terms. Ten of them got 15 years. Because of "youth, previous clear records and short periods of service," 24 of them got modified terms of twelve years; eleven got ten years; five got eight years...
...court-martial, scrupulously conducted, had heard evidence for six weeks. Last week it announced its verdict: the 50 Negro sailors accused of mutiny at the Mare Island naval depot (TIME, Oct. 2), were guilty. Neither. the extent of their guilt nor the sentence was announced. Until the findings have been transcribed in longhand (Navy regulations) and sent to Washington for review, even the 50 would not know their fate...