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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently established Japanese naval base at Pratus Shoals, 200 mi. southeast of Hong Kong. Each pilot, gunner and observer was insured for $10,000, the policies payable to the flyers' families. Off to an unknown base in southern China they flew. By week's end no word of their mission had been received...
Subnappers. At Brest, France last week the Leftist submarine C-2 still lay tied up in the harbor awaiting repairs that were started three weeks ago. Out of the darkness appeared eleven Spaniards, one Frenchman in civilian clothes. They clambered down the companionway with word that they bore special sealed orders from Valencia. The C-2's commander, José Luis Ferrando, met his guests formally in the companionway, suddenly found himself squinting down the muzzles of a dozen pistols. The visitors actually were renegade Leftist officers from another Valencia submarine, the C4, also up for repairs at Bordeaux...
...sling up Mount Rushmore's cliffs, supervising workmen with jackhammers and dynamite, 66-year-old Sculptor Borglum has that memorial near completion. The only remaining Presidential head, that of Theodore Roosevelt, has already been roughed in. His final task will be finding a suitable historical inscription. The 500-word history of the U. S. submitted by President Coolidge was edited so extensively by Sculptor Borglum that Mr. Coolidge withdrew it in a huff. ''Posterity," says Gutzon Borglum, "will hold me responsible for it, whether I write it or not, and I want it to be right...
...make screen history by identifying for the first time the punctilious, intimate manner Warner Baxter has used in all his parts and which appears at last to be the bedside manner of a fashionable surgeon. Good shots: a patient telling Dr. Lewis what she dreams about; an obstetrician getting word his wife has borne a baby; Lewis proposing to Ina while he rips adhesive off her arm; the wedding night bedroom scene played to an obligato of phone calls...
...Wading River, Long Island-among which he gravitates with his handsome blonde wife (the Lippmanns have no children). Even by the standards of U. S. success, Walter Lippmann does not lead an underprivileged life. Mornings he writes (can turn out in his illegible longhand a smooth, 1,200-word column in two hours). Afternoons he rides, fishes, plays golf (fairly), tennis (better), or referees a polo game for his Long Island friends (see cut, p. 45). In the private matter of personal friends, he is more apt to be on intimate terms with Morgan partners than with union leaders...