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Wake Island consists of three tiny jungle-clad atolls-Wilkes, Peale and Wake proper. Last week the advance construction crew ran into difficulties on Wilkes. Days of digging, drilling and blasting under a broiling sun revealed no drinking water. Further difficulties arose when the men tried to blast a ship...
Twice the year before had Dr. Mudd talked briefly with John Wilkes Booth. But on the early morning of April 15, 1865 the actor-assassin, fresh from the Presidential box at Ford's Theatre, went to him in disguise under a false name, played his part so well that...
For nearly ten years Mrs. Florence Foster Jenkins has given an annual song recital in Manhattan. Mrs. Jenkins was born some 60 years ago in Philadelphia where she studied to be a pianist. In Manhattan she founded the Verdi Society to keep the name of the composer alive. Her father...
Comprising the "crew" which covered the Edwards murder trial at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. for the evening Bulletin, we believe it only fair to correct a misstatement in the Oct. 15 issue of TIME which asserts Mr. Charles Israel, city editor of the Bulletin, claims for himself the credit for first...
On the "personal appearance" tour at which this play takes a look, Carole is accompanied by a cynical "press relations counsel" (Otto Hulette) who has been hired by President Fineberg to keep her out of man trouble. Her imported automobile breaks down near Wilkes-Barre at the home of a...