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...Saturday in suburban Inglewood, a few miles from Los Angeles. Little Jeanette Stephens, 8, Melba Everett, 9, and Madeline Everett, 7, started off with sandwiches for a picnic in the park as countless children in countless cities have done on countless Saturdays. As afternoon wore on and they did not return, their mothers grew uneasy. When suppertime had come and gone, Mrs. Stephens sent her little boy Garth, 7, to the park to look for them. An hour later the parents called the police. Shortly after midnight a community search was on and the disappearance of the three little girls...
...Roosevelt settled down in an arm chair under a big locust tree with a white-washed trunk, and each morning as four retired submarine chasers brought a flock of Congressmen to the island, he presided over something resembling an old-fashioned political picnic. Republican Senator McNary, not invited, sarcastically described the performance as a "weekend charm school." During the evenings which the President spent on the island with six members of his Cabinet and several Democratic leaders of Congress, some serious politics may have been talked but during the day he was surrounded by shirt-sleeved Congressmen eating off long...
Motoring near San Rafael, about 14 mi. north of San Francisco one day last summer, one Beryle Shinn had a puncture, decided to stop for picnic lunch on a nearby grassy bluff. Mr. Shinn squatted, found himself on a rock, lifted it, saw a dingy piece of metal. He rubbed off the dirt, managed to decipher the word "Drake," took his find to University of California's History Professor Herbert E. Bolton. Last week the historian announced himself satisfied that it was indeed the claim plate posted by Drake 357 years ago. Sold to the California Historical Society...
...Hook, Armco's present president.† George Verity's late years have been full of honors. Miami University in Oxford, Ohio gave him an LL.D. degree in 1925. Last year Middletown, Ohio, Armco's home town, declared a "Verity Day," with parades, public banquets, and a picnic for the city's entire 30,000 population. Last January Middletown's No. 1 citizen was again honored at home by having a new parkway named after him. Verity Parkway, as a publicity release related, was a tribute to the man who had operated the country...
...Warner Bros, junior cinemusical company has a picnic with the slapdash, rapid lines, but there is nothing slapdash about the glittering specialties or the skilful, engaging music. Top song and top production number: Too Marvelous for Words. Swing High, Swing Low (Paramount) reveals the effects of outrageous fortune's slings and arrows upon the soul of a sensitive hot-trumpet player. Mustered out of the U. S. Army in Panama, Skid Johnson (Fred MacMurray) is not much better than a guttersnipe when he meets Maggie King (Carole Lombard), a stranded dancer working as a manicurist. Things begin to improve...