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When Thomas Montgomery ' Howell felt the tug on his 550-yd. line, it was a half hour before noon. Captain Thompson pulled up anchor and Mr. Howell's fishing launch moved out of the harbor into the ocean. Behind it came the Thalia, Mr. Howell's large yacht...
...companion, Arthur De Cordova. All through that night, De Cordova, Howell, Captain Thompson and a seaman struggled with the tuna. When dawn broke the great fish was as strong as ever, still swimming away from the boat and resisting all efforts to turn him. Presently a skiff from the Thalia brought food to the men in the launch. They took turns tugging at their tuna all that day when the rough sea made it look as if they might have to cut the line, and all a second night. By the second dawn all four men were blistered, spray-soaked...
Married. Rion Fortescue, sister of Thalia Fortescue Massie (TIME, April 16, et ante) and Daulton Gillespie Viskniskki, son of Col. Guy T. Viskniskki, onetime business manager of the Chicago Daily News; in Washington...
Aboard S. S. Roma, Sicily-bound out of New York, Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, assaultee in Honolulu's great 1932 rape case, divorced two months ago, slashed both her wrists with a razorblade, moaned: "I wanted to die." Sewn up, she was hospitalized, landed at Genoa. Hospitalized ashore, she smiled at her doctor: "I am going to die. You may stop me now. But I will show you. I might cut my wrists again...
Divorced. Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, 28; by Thalia Fortescue Massie, 23; in Reno. Two years ago in Honolulu Mrs. Massie was attacked by five natives, one of whom Lieut. Massie and his mother-in-law kidnapped, later shot to death. Defended by Clarence Darrow, Lieut. Massie was convicted of manslaughter, but sentence was commuted (TIME, May 16, 1932). Grounds for the divorce: extreme mental cruelty, "no connection with the murder case." Three days after the divorce Mrs. Massie was in a Reno hospital, under treatment for acute alcoholism...