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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That loss she mourns until she meets and marries Colonel John Wister (Ian Hunter), who takes her back to his small British Army post in central Arabia. Second in command is Captain Denny Roark (Errol Flynn) for whom, as cinemaddicts will easily anticipate, she burns at first sight. Only satisfactory way out is for the noble colonel to fly away on an Army mission and dutifully disappear in the desert...
...scholarly Alvin Martin Ulbrickson the rise of Washington on the water is a matter of lifelong personal interest. He was born within sight of the Husky boathouse four years before the late famed Hiram Conibear became crew coach in 1907. He grew tough rowing daily two miles across Lake Washington to and from high school in Seattle. Entering Washington in 1922, he at once turned out for crew, rowed in the freshman shell that took second place at Poughkeepsie the following spring. Sophomore year he stroked the Washington varsity to victory at Poughkeepsie. He captained Coach Rusty Callow...
Driver Carnaggio said that a good way to begin was a tour of Washington for $5. The couple, who revealed that they were Mr. & Mrs. Francis J. Smith of Watford, England, agreed. During the two-hour trip Carnaggio interspersed his sight-seeing lecture with many a remark about the beauties of nearby Virginia. Upon returning to the hotel he easily sold the Smiths on the idea of a $75 trip through Virginia. Three weeks later the trio turned up in Manhattan, having been to Mt. Vernon, Arlington, Yorktown, Jamestown, Charlottesville, over the Skyline Drive to Gettysburg, Pa., then north through...
...Nininger's troubles is that most people who see a brilliant fireball are so excited that their subsequent testimony Is likely to be highly inaccurate. He himself has learned to sight meteor paths with extraordinary precision. On one occasion he sighted a fireball, marked out its probable course by drawing a line on a map. This line passed through the very field in which the meteorite, a splendid 820-pounder, was located a month later...
Last week Eastchester's Zoning Board of Appeals ordered Dr. Shapera to get Iron Mike off his lawn and out of sight. The veterinarian flatly refused. Town Counsel William Olsen threatened to seek an injunction, whereupon Dr. Shapers hired lawyers to contest the action. Iron Mike, his tongue hanging out, his coat of paint scrubbed carefully by Dr. Shapera's housekeeper, continued to gaze benignly at genteel Eastchester...