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...always the handsomest male which is the sexiest. Among Hollywood actors she picked George Raft as scoring high in sex personality, "But if I just look at a man they think it's something else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mae West Tells a Few Things to Reporters After Arriving In Boston | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...later Commander Henry Coyle's Coast Guard cutter Mendota picked up the last of the 21 survivors who clung to bobbing bits of debris. Captain Coufopandelis bore a painful gash on the bridge of his nose, the bite of a sailor who shared the captain's improvised raft and went mad from drinking salt water. The others, six of whom were saved by the C. D. Mallory tanker Swiftsure, told a gruesome tale. The sea had suddenly become alive with sharks. Helpless comrades could only look on as the man-eaters tore the bodies of two seamen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Greek Tragedy | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...fearful sea raged all day, making it impossible to launch a boat. Yet without one chance of surviving, nine men launched a life-raft. A huge wave broke the line and knocked two overboard. After dark another line was made fast to the fore-rigging, and by means of a breeches buoy the two remaining men, more dead than alive, were landed. One was the mate, who told the people that he had seen his wife and little boy drown when a wave broke into the cabin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/6/1937 | See Source »

Souls at Sea (Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Olympe Bradna); Dead End (Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor); The Prisoner of Zenda (Ronald Colman, Raymond Massey, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut); The Spanish Earth (Directed by Joris Ivens with commentary by Ernest Hemingway); Souls at Sea (Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Olympe Bradna); Dead End (Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor); The Prisoner of Zenda (Ronald Colman, Raymond Massey, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.); Shanghai bombing newsreels-Universal, March of Time, News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 27, 1937 | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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