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Many returning Harvard undergraduates were shocked by the female occupancy of such hallowed halls as Lionol, Straus, and Matthews, where they had spend a pleasant Freshman bachelor existence but this understandable annoyance melted noticeably after the first few "get acquainted" teas...
...boss, slim, 45-year-old Colonel Robert Olds, who has been flying for the Army since he was commissioned in 1917, today is as fine a big-ship handler as there is in The Air Forces. Accounted one of the flying service's white-haired boys, handsome Bachelor Olds has flown Flying Fortresses on two good-will trips through South America, commanded a four-engine bombardment group, cracked many a record sitting in the pilot's seat of a B17. More photogenic than the average seamy-faced flying man, he has appeared to advantage in many a newsreel...
Burgomaster Max was a short, slim & trim bachelor with a sharp eye for a pretty face or ankle. Sporting a torpedo beard and boulevardier's mustache, he was a gay cock sparrow in silk hat, frock coat and gold chain, the idol of the citizenry. As familiar to Bruxellois as his magnificent whiskers was his series of white pinschers, all called "Happy...
William C. Bullitt sent a box of food to imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud. "I cannot send you guns," he wrote, "but here is some butter." Crotchety old Bachelor James C. McReynolds, longtime Supreme Court Justice, "adopted" 32 British children, one Belgian. Dorothy Thompson arrived in England for a month's visit "to see my friends . . . for pleasure . . . to know what the British are thinking." Expatriate Novelist Kay Boyle flew across from Lisbon with her family of seven-biggest family the Clippers have ever carried. Hollywood's No. 1 private, Jimmy Stewart, was promoted to corporal. Heywood Hale...
...Dick and Harry is a hilarious and nearly perfect vehicle for the Miss Rogers' Tillie-the-Toiler talents. But much credit belongs to the artful direction of balding, hawk-faced Garson Kanin (Bachelor Mother, My Favorite Wife), who never lets go the reins until the horse is in the barn. Another Hollywood youngster (26), Paul Jarrico, is author of the story and the script. Private Kanin, now 28 and in the U.S. Army, says: "Anybody can direct a good picture if he's got a good script...