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Singapore Trader. Without waiting for a contract, Pan American World Airways called in Douglas DC-4 Clippers from London and Buenos Aires, summoned experienced crews from Calcutta and Rio de Janeiro, rehired 104 pilots it had laid off in January. Seaboard & Western, a nonscheduled cargo line, loaded 25 Lockheed Aircraft Service maintenance men in its DC-4 Singapore Trader, flew them to California. July 3, eight days after the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, the Singapore Trader took off from Fairfield-Suisun on the Tokyo lift's first official flight. At the controls was Captain Francis A. Warner...
...persuaded Viscount Rothermere, publisher of the Daily Mail, to try an experiment in lend-lease. In return for Rothermere's hiring Mark Jr. on a temporary basis, Publisher Ethridge agreed to hire a Daily Mailman. As of last week, Lord Rothermere had not yet picked his man, so Trader Ethridge still had the best of the bargain...
...hunted down by Stewart for the murder of their father. Before the hunt ends, the rifle is lost & found by half a dozen other characters, giving Director Anthony Mann plenty of story line to tie together some classic horse-opera situations. Among the episodes: the scalping of a crooked trader by redskins; a deafening battle between Indians and the U.S. cavalry; the ambush of desperadoes in a burning house; a bank holdup and, finally, an exciting rifle duel on the side of a craggy cliff...
...seen on the streets. Automobiles are mostly official; gas for private cars costs $1.40 a gallon. An unused 1948 Buick, offered for sale at $500 recently, found no buyers. Casualties are highest among high-class restaurants, bars, cafes, Western-style tailors, fashion shops and department stores. Said a Chinese trader who recently visited Hong Kong: "Between the Bund and the Park Hotel the show windows of all stores -including the big proud ones like Wing On, Sincere, Sun Sun and the Sun-are plastered with posters which shout: 'We Reduce Prices with Pain!', 'Shop Closing Down...
British Author Nevil Shute is a natural-born storyteller with a gift for inventing probable incident and for creating authentic background. Six fast, easy-to-read books (notably The Chequer Board, 1947, and No Highway, 1948) have established him as a middlebrow Graham Greene, an honest trader who sells his reader a story without an ideological headache in it. With his new book, however, Author Shute trifles with reportage and comes a cropper. Traveling in Sumatra in 1949, Shute was the house guest of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. Geysel-Vonck. His hostess had been one of a party of about...