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...being the first Arizonian to refuse Arizona credit for something in favor of California. Nevertheless the sand visible in The Garden of Allah (TIME, Nov. 30, p 39) is not Arizona's but California's. The Selznick camp was in the California sand dunes about 18 mi. west of Yuma, though several of the notables connected with the making of the picture did put up at the San Carlos hotel in Yuma, the nearest town of any size...
...escort Chester off the coast of Uruguay, fired 21 guns and formed up behind as escort. When the Indianapolis arrived in Buenos Aires, President Justo and practically the entire Argentine and U. S. delegations to the Peace Conference were on the dock in top hats and full official regalia. "Mi amigo!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt as he seized his peer's hand and did one of his "great guy" acts. For five miles from the landing place to the U. S. Embassy, President Justo and ten carloads of officials escorted Franklin Roosevelt through a storm of flowers hurled by crowds...
Utilities Tycoon Harvey Couch, who owns an 863-mi. backwoods railroad line, the Louisiana & Arkansas." How did you arrive at that "backwoods" business? Ever been down in this country? Does New Orleans and the Mardi Gras mean anything? How about Dallas and the Texas' Centennial? I'm not going to give you any statistics but you can read. The L. & A. Lines link these two principal cities and freight service via the "backwoods" railroad, New Orleans to Dallas, is second morning...
...that church, some 75 mi. north of the U. S. border, one day last week 1,000 friendly, happy people crowded to see Lydia Gruchy in a white dress and academic gown standing alone opposite seven male United Churchmen. She advanced to the altar, knelt while President John L. Nichol of the Saskatchewan Conference laid his hands upon her head and said: "Take thou authority to preach the Word of God and to minister the sacraments." The other churchmen laid on their hands, questioned Miss Gruchy, handed her a parchment signifying that she was now a minister...
...them in towels and rags. He told the wide-eyed neighbor women to give the babies, who weighed only 2½ to 3½ lb. each, "a little sugar water now and then." Next morning the boy and a girl died, next day a girl. The survivor, transported 150 mi. over muddy roads to Memphis, had a chance of living...