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...Zeppelin Swim...
...Guard apprised them of 440 dangerous bergs. For this year some 250 bergs had been predicted.- Where are they? For Greenland glaciers calved their bergs and Arctic ice floes cracked up as usual. Lieutenant Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard, who expects to be on the Graf Zeppelin's proposed flight this summer, last week thought he knew. Bergs drift south from the Arctic toward Labrador and Newfoundland. Normally an "ice fence" exists along those coasts, against which the bergs strike. The soft collision sends the bergs caroming eastward into the shipping lanes. This year, he believes...
...reaches of Brooklyn. Wending his way afoot to that remote region, he habitually guides himself by the stars. Arctica, Sir George Hubert Wilkins expects to take his submarine Nautilus to the North Pole this summer. Dr. Hugo Eckener may meet him there with the dirigible Graf Zeppelin. If those tours de force come to pass, the world may acquire important stores of meteorological data. Both men want to add to man's knowledge of weather. The Maligin tour is also primarily a weather hunting trip. Indeed the main purpose of every serious current Arctic expedition is to record weather...
...boast by Paul F. Kassay, young Hungarian, led to his indictment two months ago under Ohio's drastic criminal syndicalism law.- Kassay was a mechanic at the Goodyear-Zeppelin airdock where the Navy's Akron was being built. He bragged to workmen beside him that the great dirigible would never take the air because he was craftily leaving loose rivets in her frame. The workmen turned out to be U. S. Department of Justice agents who yanked Kassay off the job, turned him over to the State of Ohio to be prosecuted as a dangerous radical (TIME, March...
...time in two years, she arrives at the house just after it has died. Paul Stein has put in some thoughtful directorial touches-the lovers talking in bed in a scene in which you see only the wall which they must see from the head of the bed; the Zeppelin raid on London with the sirens hooting and fast cars placarded TAKE COVER roaring through the streets; the scene- presented entirely in shadow silhouet, from the doorway of the room-in which Miss Bennett finds her baby dead. But as an emotional actress Constance Bennett is still merely...