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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swiss backers. The new company plans three pictures, to be released by United Artists in 1939: The Californian, which Raoul Walsh may direct; The Tenth Woman, hero Lord Byron, in Technicolor; a remake of The Three Musketeers, also in Technicolor. In Manhattan, Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it had taken over all U. S. distribution for London's Gaumont-British, which will shortly close its U. S. offices...
...whale of a story. His life aboard ship had been clear sailing as far as Shark Bay. There Captain Johannes Smith and his crew found that the bay was overhunted: killing many of the whales that were left (small ones and cows with their young) was prohibited. Largest taken the whole cruise was 49 feet long, 14 feet above the minimum. Captain & crew were tempted to kill undersize whales. According to Lieutenant Midtlyng, they did. Each day the high-bowed, gun-mounted chaser boats set out, each night returned, tugging their targets behind...
When the Princeton University catalogue gave Thomas Mann the superfluous middle name of "Schriftst," eagle-eyed Princeton scholars pounced upon its editors, learned they had taken the information from Who's Who in America, whose editors in turn had it from Thomas Mann himself. He had filled out a form: "Mann, Thomas. Schriftst. [abbreviation of Schriftsteller, German for 'author...
...Packard, the third by practically everybody else. Ford grants royalty-free license of its patents to anyone. Packard charges and pays royalties. Chrysler, General Motors and all other big manufacturers subscribe to the Automobile Manufacturers' Association's cross-licensing agreement, granting free interchange of all patents taken out before...
Died. Gaston Bullock Means, 59, notorious national rascal, onetime Secret Service operator and private detective; of a heart attack; in Springfield, Mo., where he had been taken from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate...