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...Brazil-bound steamer. Dorothy Lamour is a wealthy maiden in distress, amply surrounded by Gale Sondergaard and associated heavies. Miss Sondergaard, a hypnotist, has Dottie all set to marry a money-hunting louse the moment the boat reaches Rio. One gathers that the menaces are trying to snatch a fortune by this deal, but when the time comes for explanations, Crosby calmly tears up "The Papers" that would make everything clear and says with a leer, "The world must never know...
Then gadget-minded Bob invented a weapon to help him in his never ending battle to keep the mesquite trees from crowding out the grass on the range. This was a "tree dozer," an oversize tractor with a steel hand to snatch out mesquite. He supplemented this with a "rooter plow" that lifted up a strip of land, killed the mesquite roots and dropped it back with the grass undisturbed. He then turned his hand to grass. Bob's father had brought in South African Rhodes grass. Bob took seed from the best plants, and perfected the strain. Later...
Tito relaxed his talons, and the three American G.I.s and their mongrel mascot, which had shared their Yugoslav captivity with them, marched back to freedom. The Yugoslavs made the snatch last week while feeling out how far they could bluff the thin line of U.S. troops into bending back the new Yugoslav-Trieste frontier which they were guarding...
Jerry Gorman, highest point winner last winter, invaded Canada in August to snatch the Ontario mile championship of the National Athletic Amateur Association. Coach Ulen himself was doing waterfront chores at Camp Wallula, N. H., this summer and Norm Watkins and Tom Woods were assisting...
...poverty-stricken Philadelphia family. When he was about eleven he crowned his father with a heavy wooden box in retaliation for a whipping and ran away from home. He slept in alleys and on porches, often awoke in agony from cold. He stole milk, crept into saloons to snatch free lunch. He was always using his fists and always coughing (he later discovered that he had had tuberculosis), but he never went home. At 15 he was forcing himself to practice juggling 16 hours...