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...storm had begun by pounding over Watling Island in the Bahamas-probably the San Salvador which was Christopher Columbus' first landing place-silencing the Government wireless. At Panacea, Fla. five fishermen were drowned when the deep boiled like a pot. Near Moultrie, Ga. a schoolgirl was killed when she stepped on a storm-whipped live wire. At Dinner Key the wind blew 123 miles per hour at the Pan-American Airways base. Houses crumpled, boats swamped, streets flooded. Part of the metal dome of the State Capitol at Tallahassee was torn...
Manhattanites waited for the melting watches, the hirsute oysters, the crutches, the lamb chops, that are the hallmarks of Surrealist Salvador Dali. But there were few such symbol-crashes in the ballet Labyrinth, given its world première at the Metropolitan Opera House last week...
...Reporting that she had been booed in Rio, on the street, at the opera door and on the stage as Tosca, Grace Moore said the booers were a Nazi-Fascist claque led by an Italian opera star whom she declined to name. ∙ ∙ 20th Century-Fox hired Salvador Dali to stage a special scene-a nightmare sequence showing "what runs through the mind of an inebriate...
...searching party of cops. It turned out Miss Golden and the horse had been visiting bars between Park Avenue and Times Square. When the cops found her she was trying to teach the horse the tango. ∙ ∙ A hotel in Del Monte, Calif, got an order from Surrealist Salvador Dali for party decorations. The order: 2,000 pine trees, 5,000 gunny sacks, 4,000 pounds of newspapers, four truckloads of pumpkins and melons, one wrecked automobile, one baby giraffe, three goats...
...This sensational measure, which the House is expected to approve speedily, aroused no controversy at all. The paragon bill simply permitted the U.S. to pay two-thirds of the construction cost of unfinished sections of the Inter-American Highway between Mexico and Panama. The Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama will pay the other third...