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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1937
Page
6
Addley Baker, a twenty five year old seaman from Mobile, Ala., swam over 25 hours in a raging sea to win help for the Tarpon crew after the freighter began sinking off Panama City, Florida.
Brigadier General John C Beau mont, commander of the second brigade Fleet Marine Force, sailed from San Diego for Shanghai to assume command of all United States marines in China. He will direct troop deployment to protect American nationals in the war zone.
Famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin and master violin maker Emil Francais fashioned an exact copy of Menuhin's $60,000 Stradivarius. The original was given to Menuhin on his twelfth birthday. The article notes Menuhin holding the original on the right and the copy on the left.
A newspaper column reflects on tombstone inscriptions and epitaphs as futile praise, parodies obituary writers, and comments on art, money in the arts, and the behavior of authors and critics. The piece mixes travel memory, literary jabs, and cultural observations from Phoenix.
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