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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1941
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NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
. (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
XTEW YORK.—Field Marshal Al-
exander Papagos, chief of staff
of the Greek army, is a professional
soldier, singularly free.-from any,
Strong Mind of
Greek Army Chief ever, domes-
Rale of the Land eign^WUh
the passing of the late Premier John
Metaxas, he becomes possibly the
most important single individual in
the kingdom, so far as immediate
issues are concerned. From all that
can be gleaned from Athens dis
patches, he has made up his mind
and, by all accounts, his is a mind
that stays put.. Greece will keep on
fighting. There will be no separate
peace.
The scholarly, gray-haired, trim-
rigged soldier, smartly tailored in
mufti or in uniform, has been occu
pied quite steadily with military
strategy, both in study and prac
tice, since 1912. /
After his graduation from
military academies and cavalry
schools in Athens, Belgium and
Italy, he fought in the Balkan
war of 1912 and 1913, rising from
a lieutenancy to a captaincy. In
the World war, he fought against
Bulgaria and Germany and, in
the campaign of 1920, had a staff
assignment in Asia Minor. He
was made minister of war in
1935 and chief of staff and chair
man of the supreme war coun-
. cil in 1936.
If he uses ammunition as careful
ly as he uses words, he should be a
supremely effective fighter against
all comers. Most characteristic is
his reserve, his calm precision in
action and his capacity for swift de-
cisionT~ Also characteristic is his
long aloofness from intrigue and
politics, during changing regimes.
He has opposed and bested the brass*
hats of the army in modernizing
Greek fighting forces. His calm, ex
pert judgment no doubt weighs heav
ily in the royal counsels today.
A S DIVING airplanes reach a
speed of 600 miles an hour,
they’re processing pilots through de
pression chambers like the sand-
hogs. Milo
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Oriented Self on
Bottom -Up Chair
Burch am,
record - hold
er for upside
down flying,
is rare laboratory material for the
army air corps, whamming a 1,100
horsepower Lockheed plane through
power dives which might finish him
if he hadn’t had a half hour in a
decompression chamber. It pre
vents paralysis.
Mr. Burcham, test pilot for
the Lockheed corporation, con
ditioned himself for his hazard
ous career by nailing a chair up
side down on the beam of his
kitchen, and spending a lot of
his time sitting head downwa'rd
as he coached arteries, nerves
and vision for a topsy-turvy life.
That was in 1933 when he decid
ed to make a try for the upside-
down flying record.
His record flight of 4 hours, 5 min
utes and 22 seconds was just like
an afternoon of pleasant lounging in
the old kitchen chair. He had been
a sand-lot flier on Long Island be
fore going to California, to get a new
orientation on an also topsy-turvy
world. He is thirty-seven.
N elson d. rockefeller’s
friendly overtures to South
America hit a hot maxixe rhythm
and a mezzo-voce moaning. Holly-
Hollywood Aiding
In Cartelization of zil in bril-
c c a liant techni-
C/. S.-S. America color Car _
men Miranda, the Latin lallapalooza
who has been hopping up the good
neighbor spirit in these parts for
nearly two years. The new film,
“That Night in Rio,’’ opening here,
with Senorita Miranda singing
“Chica, Chica, Boom, Chic,’’ looks
like a better attention-getter than
anything the Export-Import bank
might work up in the way of hemi
sphere cartelization. All this was
premeditated, as Hollywood is def
initely in on Mr. Rockefeller’s new
up and down flux of trade and cul
ture. The beautiful Brazilian chan-
teuse was born in Portugal and was
taken to Brazil by her parents at
the age of two.
Her real name is Maria do Carmo
da Cunha, her stage name having
been taken from her mother’s maid
en name. Still in her early twen
ties, she has made nine concert
tours of Brazil and other South
American countries, and her more
than 300 recordings top all sales in
the Western hemisphere. When she
made her debut here in “Streets of
Paris,” in June, 1939, North and
South America began to realize they
had much in common. Her . “Sam
ba” rhythm seems to be indigenous
to both continents and oughjr to help
to keep good neighbors
Training U. S. Aviation Mechanics
An impressive view of one of the “class rooms” at the Academy of Aeronautics, LaGuardia airport, New
York, showing some of the students of aviation mechanics at work in .a mass welding session. The school is
training civilians and army men. About 300 enlisted men will take the course.
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given the pursuit plane speed and altitude tests in the sub-stratosphere. Right: Chief test pilot Marshall
Headle turns on the oxygen as Burcham starts pedaling a bicycle for 30 minutes to “supercharge” himself
for his flight high above ground. While pedaling he breathes only pure oxygen.
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Nine-year-old Joseph Randazza of Gloucester, Mass., is shown (left)
with his younger brother, Sammy, who is three. These are America’s
stoutest boys. Joe weighs 290 pounds, and Sammy 85. Joe gained 110
pounds in the last 14 months. The pair, 375 pounds strong, are out
for a morning stroll.
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Her majesty, the Ranee of Sarawak, who is the only white Ranee
in the world, is pictured here at the Presbyteriaji hospital in New York
city. She is giving her blood for the blood-bank'-which will be drawn
upon by Great Britain from time to time. A1
nurse Miss M. Clark and Dr. Earl Taylor.
the Ranee are
Thomas D. Campbell, famed
wheat expert from Montana, before
leaving the Transatlantic air termin
al in New York, on a secret mission
to London. Thomas was an adviser
to the government of Soviet Russia
on the first five-year plan.
Fled Norway
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Standing on stern of their little
fishing boat, in New York, are these
refugees from Norway. The 63-foot
ship flbd on June 9 with 25 refugees^
Seventeen joined the British ai
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By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
E RNEST LUBITSCH recently
signed a contract with 20th-
Century Fox that promises us
something special in the way of
mov|es., He will choose and di
rect hisown stories. So we’ll have
the celebrated Lubitsch touch
applied to tales that he feels are
particularly suitable. He has one
more .picture to do for United Artists
before he starts out on his new con
tract.
*
Merle Oberon says that she knows
it’s silly, but she can’t help being
affected by the roles she plays. For
instance, after a day of “Wuthering
Heights” she’d go home and cry
herself to sleep, because she was so
depressed.
“In ‘Tlie Cowboy and the Lady’
I was somewhat of a spoiled brat
and I had to watch myself to keep
from being as demanding off the
screen as I was on,” Miss Oberon
continued.
With a good many imiLfcent by
standers the effect was just the re
verse. After they saw “Wuthering
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Heights” they rushed out and de
manded more pictures as good as
that one, but “The Cowboy and the
Lady” sent them weeping to' their
corners because it was so bad.
Anyway, Miss Oberon jumped at
the chance to play a modem, witty
young wife in “That Uncertain Feel
ing,” opposite Melvyn Douglas, be
cause she felt that it had something
very special for her—a chance to be
just herself. It’s a Lubitsch picture.
*
Martha Scott won a horse in a
raffle the other day—it cost her all
of a dollar, and it’s called Red Em
ber. Then the producer of “They
Dare Not Love,” in which she is
co-starred with George Brent, saw
the horse and announced that it was
exactly what he needed for William
Holden to ride in “Texas,” which
he is also producing. So Red Em
ber was signed up, and will earn
$25 a day when he works.
—*—
If, when you see Margaret Hayes’
face on the screen, it looks familiar,
it will be because you’ve seen it
before. She was a model for New
York artists and photographers, and
a Well known one, before she went
to Hollywood, and her name in those
days was Dana Dale. She has the
second leading feminine role in
“The Night of January 16th,” sup
porting Ellen Drew and Robert
Preston, and look for her in “Sky
lark,” with Claudette Colbert.
*
Rio RKa has had quite a career
during the last two years as a band
leader, singer and dancer; she’s ap
peared on Broadway and at theaters
throughout the United States. Para
mount signed her up to appear as
the tropical rival of Dorothy La-
mour in “Aloma of the South Seas”
—and promptly changed her name
to Rita Shaw! It was a case of
necessity, though. Metro’s just
bought the screen rights to the
musical, “Rio Rita,” from RKO and
will give us a new version of it.
*
It’s simple enough to make a for
tune these days. First, you write
a play that’s a success on Broadway;
second, you sell it to the movies.
Recently Paramount paid $285,000
for “Lady in the Dark,” in which
Gertrude Lawrence gives a superb
performance—Irene Dunne is prob
ably the only motion picture actress
who could handle it. Columbia liked
“My Sister Eileen,” an amusing
play, well enough to buy it for
$225,000.
—m—
William Holden’s dispute with
Paramount was settled very satis
factorily; he got a new, seven-year
optional contract, at double his
former salary You’ll see him be
fore long starring in Columbia’s
“Texas.”
*
ODDS AND ENDS—George Tobiah
sets a new record by playing in four
Warner Bros' films at the same time . .
Abbott and Costello have signed up to
make four more comedies for Universal
. Metro’s acquired quite a menagerie
—200 deer and 12 bears—for "The
Yearling" . . . Basil Rathbone, star of
"The Mad Doctor," is collecting discard
ed surgical instruments from doctors and
surgical supply houses—sends them to
England, where theres’ a shortage . . .
Somebody's started a rumor tWUt Metro
will co-star Greta Garbo and Mickey
which seems too fantastic even
wh^/tgaractically anything
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