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During the next three days Scot MacDonald & entourage paid a spectacular swooping visit to Rome-Dictator Mussolini being probably the only person who might be able to win Dictator Hitler over to the British plan. Traveling on a special Italian train, the British party were startled near Arquata Scrivia when the electric engine got tangled up in the overhead wires, tore down 500 yards of them. Rushing to the rescue, an Italian steam locomotive tugged the MacDonald train to Genoa where Air Minister General Italo Balbo waited at the controls of a big trimotored Italian seaplane. Flanked by nine escort...
...poisoning; in Manhattan. Giant (6-ft.-4-in.), ruddy Thornton played football for University of Pennsylvania (1891-94); was called from the Long Island Railroad in 1914 when Great Eastern's chairman found no "man in England capable of extricating us." Having solved Britain's complex Wartime train problems he was picked in 1922 for president & board chairman of Canadian National to save it from becoming "a spineless nuisance with nobody to kick and no soul to own." He turned a deficit into a surplus, resigned last year to give Depression politicians "a free hand...
...King Kong has deftly crossed the continent without the use of three league boots or a special train. He needs no publicity. The Gala Hollywood Premiere held at the R.K.O. Keith's at a late hour last night would have hurt his sensibility were he there, but, alas, he is dead...
Suit Won. Against Victor Talking Machine Co. (now RCA-Victor Co.); by David Graves George, 67, Southern Railway Co. employe, onetime Virginia hillbilly; for an accounting of profits on the record, "The Wreck of the Old 97" which George claimed he wrote in 1906 when a crack mail train plunged off a trestle near Franklin Junction, Va. Probable royalties: over...
...Capt. Anton Heinen, German dirigible pilot, was hired by the U. S. Government in 1923 to help train a crew for the Navy's first dirigible, Shenandoah. Out of Navy employ, he formed a company three years ago in Atlantic City, N. J. to build and sell "air yachts" (small blimps) for $10,000 each (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930). He built & flew one, for demonstration, made no sales. Next week the demonstration ship (104-ft. long, four passenger) will be auctioned in Atlantic City to satisfy a claim...