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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1941
Page
2
The piece notes Alaska's long history since 1867 and a recent surge in defense spending, exports, and employment. It highlights a 1940 upturn with 25,000 workers in 100 canneries packing 7,000,000 cases annually, and mentions imports like meats dairy grains fruits and textiles.
New portrait of Rear Admiral Russell Willson as Naval Academy superintendent. Recalled exploits including saving the destroyer Lawrence in a Labrador squall and his rise from Sardinia, New York, to rear admiral. Mentions his Navy Cross Victory Medal and Vera Cruz medal.
In a Hamstead reception tale, Glesca Paine, a famed writer, learns a newcomer Alice Merle doubts her talent. Alice plagiarizes a story and seeks Glesca’s judgment, only to reveal the piece is actually Glesca’s own work, sparking an unexpected turn of admiration and friendship.
Douglas Shearer of MGM notes progress in sound recording from hidden mikes and muffled rain to moving booms and cannon demonstrations. He cites practical fixes for coins jingling, blotting paper curtains, dampened newspapers, and soft roller typewriter keys as common solutions to everyday film sound problems.
Robert Rafel Western Union messenger No 297 ran pel mel down the corridor in the Chicago Daily News building to deliver a note from Ghent to Aix. He crashed head first through a large plate glass pane six feet six by nine feet ten inches, suffering only a slight cut to an arm. Glazing chief H Eisenscimer praised his escape as the glass was worth about $100.
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