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...Tower $3,000-their share of $15,000 prize money supplied by William Wrigley Jr., Chicago gum man, who got the idea of swimming marathons two years ago and, with $25,000 prize money, induced 150 competitors to try swimming the 20 miles from Santa Catalina Island across San Pedro Channel to the California coast (TIME...
...studios, producers were irked by a scarcity of minor players, the lesser folk of filmdom who eagerly side with Equity: who, unlike big-salaried stars, need protective organization. Sympathetic labor unions gave Equity aid. Off San Pedro, Los Angeles seaport, a cinema was being filmed aboard a lugger. Among the cinema sailors were non-Equity actors. The real sailors cast away their marlin-spikes, refused to work. Simultaneously the Pacific Seamen's Union informed Equity President Frank Gillmore that they would work no more in cinema until the conflict was over...
...battleship command falls to the author-admiral. The supply vessel Procyon is flagship of the Fleet Base Force at San Pedro, Cal., essentially a training organization. Observers noted that Admiral Magruder's new post is likely to be his last. Aged 62, and only two years remain between him and retirement...
Spanish Flyers. Queen Victoria of Spain last week gave a formal luncheon to Commander Ramon Franco, Julio Ruiz de Alda, Eduardo Gonzales Gallarza. Spanish trans-atlantic aspirants, and their English rescuers (TIME, July 1, 8). A stayaway: Mechanic Sergeant Pedro Madariaga. Reason: Spanish court rules permit only members of the nobility or persons of high official rank to attend formal royal functions...
Four years ago Mrs. Morton started for Mexico to induce that country to part with one of its insular possessions in the Pacific. On the way she learned that an islet lying in San Pedro Channel off Southern California apparently belonged to nobody...