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When telephones in the bank began to ring, Mr. Thurston began to put two & two together. He learned that his missing employes and 30 others had sailed the day before from Dyer's Cove, 60 miles from inland Rumford, to picnic on Monhegan Island. They had been taken there by Skipper Paul Johnson on the Don, a 44-foot "Nova Scotian," long past her rum-running prime. Thurston telephoned to the Coast Guard. They had seen nothing...
When he liked an actress' work he used to say: "She gives me a lump." Being a sentimentalist, he was the natural companion of George M. Cohan. He met Mr. Cohan at a picnic in 1904, and before the day was over made him a producing partner. The partnership lasted 16 years and gave Broadway 50 shows. The first was Little Johnny Jones, and in it George Cohan sang for the first time Give My Regards to Broadway and The Yankee Doodle...
...Churchill Downs, the two "solid horses" were Our Boots and Porter's Cap. But by the time the bands tootled My Old Kentucky Home and eleven of the nation's classiest three-year-olds paraded to the post, Whirlaway had become the favorite. In the paddock, the picnic-like infield and the $100 boxes echoed and re-echoed the hardboots' enthusiasm: if Arcaro can keep Whirlaway from bearing out, there is no horse that can outstay...
...twelve-island archipelago fantastically storied as a haven for pirates and more modern escapists, Navy airmen will set up patrol bases, scan the Pacific to south, west and north. Another base will be set up 550 miles north of the Galapagos, on deserted Cocos Island, a favorite picnic stop of President Roosevelt's, where treasure-hunting for buried pirate gold is the only industry. (Costa Rica, the owner, now limits treasure-seeking parties to one at a time to avoid trouble.) Third base will be in the Gulf of Fonseca on Honduras' coast. The fourth will...
...dune-strewn shore of Flour Bluf Peninsula twelve miles southwest of Corpus Christi, Tex. on the Gulf of Mexico, was once an old camp site where Indians buried their dead. Then it became the favorite hunting, fishing, and picnic grounds of Corpus Christians. Last week the scrub oak peninsula brislted with shiny white hangars, repair shops, buildings of all descriptions. In bright new classrooms, 52 pink-cheeked, khaki-clad youths got their initial instruction. Seventy-five more were due thi week. The U. S. Navy's biggest air station (70% completed) was open 16 months ahead of the original...