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There is one Manhattan publishing house the less since a Federal jury found sleek, Italian-born Carlo M. Flumiani guilty on 12 charges of mail fraud last fortnight. This week Judge Simon H. Rifking sentenced him to 18 months in jail, a $2,500 fine. But nobody will miss Fortuny, Inc., or Publisher Flumiani. A particularly heartless and lucrative operator in what is known to the book trade as "vanity publishing," Publisher Flumiani was convicted of mulcting, since 1935, several thousand gullible authors of around $500.000 by making them pay for the publication of their books-mostly tripe...
...pilots were diving their airplanes onto the deck of our boats like human bombs. Just as they had used those human dynamite charges at Shanghai to break up Chinese barbed wire. Vag shuddered. He tried to imagine himself as the pilot of a bomber, poised high above a sleek, tall ship of war carrying the white banner with the orange sun. He could imagine himself trying to force his muscles to shove the stick forward and aim himself in the fatal dive. Somehow, he couldn't quite work up the nerve. His muscles seemed paralyzed. Life, even...
...Huckins Yacht Corp. yards in Jacksonville, Fla., Huck went to work. He locked himself in his laboratory, neglected his family, cut his friends, put in 100 hours a week over a drawing board. Last July his PT-69, a neat, sleek boat which jumps from wave to wave like a rock skipping over the water, was ready for Navy tests. Last week the Navy showed that it shared some of Huck's confidence that he had built the fastest, smoothest torpedo boat in the world: it gave him a contract (about $1,000,000) to build eight of them...
Ailing Manuel Quezon (he has tuberculosis), President since 1935, did most of his campaigning from bed. He showed himself in his sleek car, behind a motorcycle escort, only when alarmists shouted that he was dying. In his Malacanan Palace, changing from one bright-colored dressing gown to another, the 63-year-old President played bridge, ran off movies for his friends, with his thin fingers deftly manipulated the wires that control Philippine politics...
Thus, according to Rudyard Kipling, sang the great sleek Callorhinus alascanus, the fur seal, of his summer home in the Bering Sea, the barren volcanic islands of the Pribilof Archipelago. To these islands each May the males come first, from their winter haunts in the north Pacific-huge, scarred 600-lb. bulls, full-coated three-year-old "bachelors." By the time the females arrive from the south with their pups, weeks later, the bulls have battled themselves ragged and bloody fighting for places to set up their harems on the rocky ledges of the rookery. Each bull takes some...