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Eight months after abandoning her $3,500-a-week Hollywood job for a Sisters of Charity convent in Kansas, Cinemactress June Haver, 27, flew home to Los Angeles, her attempt to become a nun at an end. Photographers snapped her getting kissed by her stepfather and mother, Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Ottestad. Ill health was June's reason for returning to secular life: "I was a novice, and it means just that. It's a time of trial, and if you can't do it, well...
...Ventriloquism" (25?). After discovering that ventriloquists do not actually throw their voices but create the illusion that they do, Winchell proceeded to amaze his friends. At 14, he also impressed radio's Major Bowes, who gave him $100 first-prize money on his Amateur Hour and a $75-a-week contract to perform in one of his traveling vaudeville units. Winchell was on the road for the next ten years playing theaters and nightclubs...
...suburb of Chicago last week, Grocer Marty Garofalo grossed $25,000 in his bustling, up-to-date supermarket. That was quite a way up from the $200-a-week business he was doing in a neighborhood store four years ago. The difference: Garofalo had become one of the 5,300 members of the Independent Grocers Alliance, a chain of owner-operated stores that, next to the A. & P., is the world's biggest food-retailing organization...
Across the jumble of benches Christie stood watching them, bald and spectacled, looking exactly like the 55-year-old, $23 a-week clerk he was. One of seven children, he had been spoiled by his mother, a talented musician, bullied by his father. Early in life sexual immaturity made him the butt of girl-friend jokes. In World War I he was wounded by a mustard-gas shell, lost his sight for five months and the power of speech for three years. Working as a clerk, he met and married Ethel Simpson, took a job as a postman...
Sevellon Brown, who looks and often talks like a college professor, never went beyond grammar school. He started out in newspapers as a $10-a-week ad salesman on the Milwaukee Journal. After working for the U.P. and newspapers in the East, he got a job in the Journal and Bulletin's Washington bureau as a correspondent. When he first joined the staff, the papers had a far different reputation from the one he eventually gave them...