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...Wing), ready to leap at a moment's notice into action against an enemy invader. The signal they are waiting for is a speck on a radarscope, picked up perhaps in Newfoundland or on a ship at sea. If the Russians come over the pole or Greenland (the shortest route), interceptors from New England bases will be first in the air. If they come over the Atlantic, McGuire will "scramble" to meet them...
...shortest (three minutes) Hollywood divorce hearings on record. Barbara Stanwyck, 43, freed herself of Robert Taylor, 39. A judge dissolved their eleven-year-old marriage, long considered one of Hollywood's happiest, after Barbara testified that Taylor had enjoyed his freedom while making a movie in Italy and wanted "to continue his life without restrictions." She added: "I was very shocked . . . For several weeks I was under the care of my physician." ¶When a gossip columnist began commiserating with Linda Darnell, 27, who had just got her divorce from Cameraman Peverell Marley, 49 (TIME, Feb. 26), Linda cheerfully...
Vital Statistics. Born: April 19, 1883, at Sāo Borja, Rio Grande do Sul. Height: 5 ft. 2 in. (making him the hemisphere's shortest chief executive). Married (in 1911). Children: two sons, two daughters. Religion: Catholic, who rarely goes to Mass...
Registrants will be required to sign their names only twice at this spring registration, the shortest this century...
...will also complete the reformation of the Chinese churches in the direction of self-government, self-propagation and self-support within the shortest possible time, so as to get rid of the American imperialists' misuse of Christianity as a means of carrying on their aggressive conspiracy in China...