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...love with shadowy Ashley Wilkes, a cultured, sensitive spirit among the robust, hard-riding plantation aristocrats, primarily because she could not get him to pay much attention to her. He was going to marry her friend Melanie, another thoughtful and isolated soul. Scarlett got Ashley alone at an all-day barbecue on a neighboring plantation, asked him to marry her, counting on her looks and his chivalry to make him do it. He refused. Then Scarlett found that her shameless offer and his humiliating refusal had been overheard by a wicked man who despised Southern chivalry. Until this point, after...
...being exploited by their employers, the company's only active producing members now are Sam Goldwyn, Charlie Chaplin, whose new, unnamed "Production No. 5" will be released in August, and Mary Pickford, who plans six pictures next year. In Hollywood last week, Producers Goldwyn, Pickford and Chaplin held all-day meetings, lunched for five hours, arguing about whom to elect president to replace Producer Schenck, where to find a new producing organization to replace Twentieth Century...
...penny at a time for candy. Candy bars fell off severely while bulk penny candy shot up. The $1 and $2 boxes of fine candy were reduced as the packages grew plainer and the sales slowly increased. Value and protracted pleasure became prime factors and children picked all-day suckers, molasses candies and toffee for their money. Repeal, too, flayed its part in the candy business. Some unscrupulous businessmen in New Jersey discovered that candy containing hard liquor could be sold to children. Teachers in Brooklyn and Philadelphia began to note their pupils' dull eyes, thick speech, wobbly walk...
...died naturally (see p. 72). President Mendieta accepted the resignation of Penate's brother Rodolfo as Secretary of Labor and persuaded Secretary-Without-Portfolio Carlos Saladrigas, who had also sent in his resignation, to take the dead Penate's job. Then he called his cabinet into two all-day sessions from which he emerged, pale but triumphant, with three of the smartest moves his government has made thus...
Calendar. The exhausting all-day public reception at New Year's will be discontinued, said she. Undoubted reason: to spare the President the ordeal. The number of guests at the five other receptions will be curtailed. Guests whose names are removed from those lists will be received after the five state dinners. First of these affairs occurs this week, when the President and his lady dine the Cabinet. After that the White House calendar is arranged thus...