People, Sep. 18, 1939

Off Santa Catalina Island, Calif., Charlie Chaplin rowed away from his yacht Panacea to get a little exercise, lost an oar, failed to start his outboard motor, drifted aimlessly for two hours before being rescued.

British Captain-Couturier Edward Henry Molyneux, slim, blond women's fashion stylist who won a British Military Cross in World War I, moved his salon from Paris to Limoges.

Blonde British Naziphile the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, "ideal Nordic woman" friend of A. Hitler, was stranded in Munich beyond closed frontiers.

Rufous, rotund Sergeant Alvin C. York, backwoods schoolteacher who...

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