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Five of them got hold of one of the Spee's motor launches one night last week and tried to escape. They were captured after sunrise near the Spee's grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Conquering Heroes | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Last week, three days out of hospital after an operation for appendicitis, Eileen Herrick stole away from home, met George Lowther. Shepherded by a Daily News reporter, with two Daily News cameramen in attendance, they fled to Conway, N. H. by plane and motor. While rival newsmen gnashed their teeth in impotent rage, Romeo & Juliet wrote a happy ending (exclusive in the Daily News), were married at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Romeo & Juliet | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...wintry Manhattan last week went many of the millions of motorboat fans, whose summery sport has become in 35 years a $165,000,000 industry. Destination: the 35th annual National Motor Boat Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Elcos, Eurekas, Etc. | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...fend mine-laying planes away from the Thames estuary, the British moved their balloon barrage to sea. This they did by swinging motor trucks, from which the balloons are flown on long cables, aboard lighters which then were anchored offshore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Ambitious Answer | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...skyscraper apartment in New York City's financial district, he slept in a bed powered with a motor to trundle him to the open air, organized a campaign to put down mosquitoes in Manhattan, pushed the fund-raising campaign that got floodlighting for the Statue of Liberty. At 58 he found time to marry 40-year-old Mrs. Percy Frank Eames, relict of an International Harvester official. He reputedly spent $250,000 on the Washington debut of his stepdaughter in the depth of Depression I. Sickly, he twice explained profitable sales of his Cities Service stock, once during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Death in Philadelphia | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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