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Dragging for the fat shrimp which wriggle along the warm Mexican gulf coast, fishermen from Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. make long, profitable runs. But the business also has its hazards. One pink-streaked dawn last week, off the coast at Soto la Marina, a Mexican gunboat steamed up beside seven trawlers flying the U.S. flag and trained its guns on them. "You are fishing illegally in Mexican territorial waters!" bawled the skipper. "Follow me into Tampico under arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Crimp in the Shrimp | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Divorced. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, former No. i ranking U.S. tennis player (during the '305) and Davis Cupper (1934); by Donna Marina Torlonia Shields, 32, daughter of the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Born. To Igor ("Ghighi") Loiewski-Cassini, 33, chichi Hearst chitchatterer ("Cholly Knickerbocker"), and second wife Elizabeth Darrah Waters Loiewski-Cassini, 21, blonde ex-model: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Marina. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Luxury Liner (MGM) floats Metro's musical stock company in a welter of romantic complications which could be followed only with a navigation chart. The tangles are slowly and rather painfully unsnarled to the accompaniment of songs by Lauritz Melchior, Marina Koshetz and young Jane Powell, who is expected to carry the burden of a clumsy plot about a sea captain (George Brent) and his amorous passengers. Miss Powell makes a game try against heavy odds. The handling of Mr. Melchior, who also tries hard, is in the Hollywood tradition: two pan shots of enraptured listeners to every shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...showing its teeth and seeming to invite entry with its grin. . . . Such are the dungeons above which rise the proud castles of the tyrants, and from them is to be seen the curling savoury smoke of their banquets." And when the Chief Ranger has conquered the peoples along the Marina, a dirge is heard in the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Steel to Faith | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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