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...Manhattan, U. S. Minister to Portugal Herbert Claiborne Pell, old friend & college mate of President Roosevelt, sententious, well-stuffed socialite who delights in shocking his stumer friends, embarked for Portugal to resume his diplomatic duties. Asked if Portugal would become a hot spot, he replied: "I wouldn't be going back if I thought so. I'm no hero...
Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi and deputy leader of the party, the hirsute anti-Semite who in 1923 was Hitler's beer-hall Putsch-mate...
...even the University of Washington's Professor of Zoology Melville Harrison Hatch knew whether the Seattle firefly colony would survive, perhaps spread to other West Coast areas. They will keep on hatching and flashing for a few weeks, mate, lay eggs and die. Then it is up to the eggs...
...Hero. Having sworn to tell the whole truth, and promised to defend himself when and as necessary, Oliver Naquin in the witness chair produced a hero whom the press had overlooked: Chief Electrician's Mate Lawrence James Gainor of Honolulu. Forty-year-old Lawrence Gainor was on duty near one of the Squalus' two battery compartments. While the after compartments were flooding, Lawrence Gainor braved a fiery arc, crawled between the melting, short-circuited cables, disconnected the switches, and so prevented fire which undoubtedly would have cut off more of the Squalus' crew from rescue. His performance...
Tarzan Finds a Son (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Not stork-borne, this son is the adopted survivor of an airliner wreck on Tarzan's own African escarpment. Reared by Tarzan's mate, Maureen O'Sullivan, on antelope milk, the youngster at five looks like Johnny Weissmuller through the wrong end of an opera glass. He swims like a loon, rides turtles and elephants, fights lions singlehanded, lives just the life every tree-climbing young Tarzan-imitator yearns...