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...Glamor Tennist Alice Marble got a $1-a-year job with the Office of Civilian Defense to plump for national female fitness......Mum on her reasons, Lillian Gish abruptly checked out of the America First Committee....Birth Controler Margaret Sanger ascribed new difficulties of the birth-control movement in the U.S. to the existence of a totalitarian plot.....Elinor Glyn, who brought forth "It," came away from an interview with Britain's Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was "Vril." She said it meant energy......In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country...
Thus jauntily 59-year-old F. P. A. concluded his 38th year of daily columning. He still had something better than a tidy poker allowance from Information Please ($900 a week), but chances appeared slim that he would ever again match his Conning Tower heyday on the old New York World or his $21,852-a-year syndicate column on the Herald Tribune. Less appreciated now are his own Pepys' diary of poker-playing, reading, tennis, his punning and light verse. Real meat of his column was always contributions. In it appeared the early efforts of Dorothy Parker, George...
...Gloria Vanderbilt, now 17 and quite grown up, has been doing Hollywood so hard that most of her $25,750-a-year allowance is reported spent within six months. ≤≤ Andrew J. ("Bossy") Gillis, ex-"bad boy" mayor of Newburyport, Mass., was sentenced to nine months in jail for libeling an Ipswich judge in his weekly paper, ≤≤ Charles ("Mickey) Norman, who hit the front pages for his cigar smoking when he was 14 months old, turned ten. "I don't hardly smoke cigars at all any more," he said. "They stink." ≤≤ Nathalia Crane, onetime...
...rose Charles Wetmore Kellogg, president of Edison Electric Institute and $1-a-year power man for 0PM. He declared that present U.S. generating capacity allowed for a 20% margin of safety, is adequate for all defense and civilian needs. Tired of needling by the Federal Power Commission, which has predicted a power shortage ever since 1934, he remarked: "Power shortages estimated by public bodies have generally been at a time in the future so distant that they have been eliminated by new construction before the time arrived." E.E.I, foresaw an increase of installed capacity to 48,000,000 kilowatts...
...overcome this resistance, Mehornay first tried persuasion. He borrowed from a Milwaukee machine shop $1-a-Year Men Francis Trecker and his brother Joseph to sell subcontracting as they had machines. They knew their subject. In 1939 their company (Kearney & Trecker) had started subcontracting with orders from the French Government. In Chicago, San Francisco, all over the country, the Trecker brothers held mass meetings whooping up subcontracting. Last week at Buffalo's "Defense Clinic," Francis saw several subcontracts signed before he left...