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Divorced. John Ringling North, 42, former president of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus; by beauteous French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey Agassiz North, 35; after five years of marriage, three of separation; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Example: soon after they were married, he left her to hunt for a mate for his lonely gorilla, Gargantua...
...afternoon, Harry Truman attended a ship's smoker, intently following the Navy boxers. When the portable ring collapsed and a post struck Bosun's Mate H. W. Beemans, the President scurried below deck to sick bay, checked the sailor's injuries and stayed for a short chat...
...from Charles Evans Hughes to Woodrow Wilson, because the G.O.P. candidate snubbed him in the campaign. Wilson found him no friend. Hiram harangued the Senate until U.S. adherence to the League of Nations was dead. In 1920, Johnson stubbornly ignored G.O.P. demands that he be Harding's running mate, later sulked when Coolidge succeeded to the White House. Unpredictable as ever, he supported Herbert Hoover in 1928, turned against him for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, turned against Roosevelt on the World Court fight and the Third Term...
...Ulithi, the 300 primitive natives and their paralytic King Ueg (pronounced Weg) agreed to move from Mogmog to mile-long Fassarai, one of the atoll's southern islands. (The Japs had taken the able-bodied natives with them.) Leaving a doctor and a chief pharmacist's mate to administer to the people on Fassarai, the Navy put the Seabees to work. The result was something new in naval history: a vast service station enabling entire fleets to operate indefinitely at unprecedented distances from their main, landmass bases. Many a ship stayed out a year or more without returning...
Admiral William F. Halsey, who had already been promised a saddle for his projected ride on Hirohito's white horse (TIME, July 2), heard that a pair of handmade spurs were in the offing. Vernon L. Fertig, Machinist's Mate 3/C, had been working on the spurs for more than four months, wrote wistfully from the Aleutians: "I'd like to be there to saddle the horse...