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Uncharted Shoals. Once Mary Pickford's private yacht, the sturdy, 75-ft. Joyita was apparently sound as a dollar when she hauled anchor in the Samoan port of Apia one day early last October on a routine, 40-hour voyage to the nearby Tokelau Islands. Sudden line squalls, uncharted shoals and the whirling menace of unheralded waterspouts are common hazards to navigation in that part of the world, but during his years as a charter captain and fisherman in the South Seas, Dusty Miller, who habitually stood his watches in native costume, had brought his little ship safely through...
...Verdon stories. A serious student of the movie industry, Correspondent Goodman has collected over the years a library of some 1,000 books from a 1671 volume, Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (The Great Art of Light and Shadow), dealing with the invention of the magic lantern, to Mary Pickford's autobiography, Sunshine and Shadow...
...such an atmosphere of yearning, the Big Four foreign ministers met one evening at the Pacific Union Club, a squat, brownstone mansion atop Nob Hill, to savor California cracked crabs, guinea hen on ham, and strawberries Mary Pickford (coated with pineapple sherbet). "A month ago we were in Vienna," toasted the host, John Foster Dulles. "Tonight we dine in San Francisco. Within the month we will be at Geneva. We can all hope that the sources of friction between us have been reduced by our efforts." The city lay beneath them, glistening myriad lights at night, to the edge...
Regarding every day Cambridge, Clara Bow and Mary Pickford appeared regularly at the University Theatre; Willie Hoppe, Bill Tilden, and George M. Cohan appeared in Lucky Strike advertisements; Langrock, Browning King, and J. August...
Friday with Garroway (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC). With Mary Pickford, Vernon Duke, Alistair Cooke...