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Last week in Los Angeles' fancy Hotel Biltmore Bowl, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences bestowed upon the following cinema figures, for the following 1937 achievements, six-inch gilt figurines, strongly resembling radiator-cap sculpture and disparagingly referred to as "Oscars...
...that the best-hated Rightist General in Spain, Miguel Aranda of the siege of Oviedo, was leading the relief column against Teruel and none other than Jos Moscardó, hero of the Alcazar, was re-enacting that same siege inside Teruel. Tanks rumbled against the cathedral within the hour. Six-inch guns fired point blank into the seminary, the bank and cathedral where the last-standers were holding out with vanishing supplies and little ammunition...
Certain was that for the first time an absolutely first-class warship had been struck directly by a modern bomber. The damage, though bloody, did not exceed that of a six-inch shell. The Deutschland was not disabled, easily made her way to Gibraltar whose harbor she entered with flag at half-staff. British vessels lowered their flags in sympathy, the crew of the U. S. S. Kane attended a memorial service for the dead before the Deutschland steamed off for repairs in Germany...
Selected for being the nearest modern relative of the dinosaur, one of the 250 extant Indian rhinos was cornered by Miss Lane in the Bronx Zoo. She first made a six-inch job, then a two-foot, then a four-foot, and finally a life-size. She was dissuaded from going on up the scale...
...smaller. Last week it took 500 tons of ice fed through grinders to keep the floor and ski slide snowy. During performances of the show, spectators were spellbound when workmen fed one of the machines 50-lb. chunks of ice, which it chewed into flakes, spewed out of a six-inch hose, as glittering, precious Snow...