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Whom the Gods Destroy (Columbia). When Producer John Forrester (Walter Connolly) finds himself off the coast of Newfoundland on the deck of a sinking ocean liner, he removes his lifebelt and gives it to another passenger. A moment later, acting on a frantic impulse, he undoes his heroism by wrapping himself in a lady's coat, hopping into a lifeboat which lands him safely in a fishing village. When he gets back to New York several months later, John Forrester finds himself mourned as a dead hero. He realizes that if he makes it known that he is still alive...
...land department has control over 2,000,000 unsold acres remaining from the original grant. The company owns oil lands, operates a fleet of 86 ships. In recent years it has gone extensively into business in Newfoundland where it bought Job Bros. & Co., owners of the only sal mon factory ship in the world. From Newfoundland Hudson's Bay Co. ships annually to England some 1,250,000 Ib. of famed "Hubay" salmon, the most popular imported brand in Great Britain...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, has been granted leave of absence for the first half of next year, according to an announcement made yesterday at University Hall. He will spend the time in visiting Canada, Newfoundland, the West Indies, and if possible, Australia and New Zealand, to gather material for a book on the British Commonwealth of Nations, which he is about to write. All his courses will be presented in the second half of the year. Carl J. Friedrich, associate professor of Government, will act as the head of the Government department during Elliott's absence...
...Louis Bleriot, was named Joseph LeBrix after the famed French flyer who crashed to death in Russia three years ago. To spur them on the French Government offered a prize of one million francs ($66,000). Prevailing tailwinds sped them safely over the North Atlantic. Above Newfoundland they ran into fog and motor trouble. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, 2,600 mi. short of their goal, they landed, having flown 3,600 mi. in 38 hr. 27 min. 11 hr. 10 min. slower than Coste & Bellonte). A great thing done twice loses much of its public appeal...
...Newfoundland law forbids the sealing fleet to put out until March 8, when the seals' whelping season is over. Then St. John's sends the ships off, each jammed by 100 to 300 swilers, with cheers, bunting, band music and cannon fire. Swilers work on shares and the trip to the seal herds is a bitter race. Arrived, the swilers swarm out over the ice with their long, hooked gaffs, begin bashing in seals' skulls right & left. Swilers never shoot seals, except in self-defense against an angry, sharp-toothed male, but they sometimes make...