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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pats & Brickbats. When a motion opposing the President's plan was offered, incoming President C. Herbert Marshall of Washington led the Southern bloc's assault: "If you support a stand against the Truman proposals, you will get a pat on the back from the A.M.A. But you will gain the condemnation of ten million Negroes . . . for denying to many of our people medical opportunities ... It would be wise to create an issue to make the A.M.A. come to you, man to man, rather than to ignore you because you pulled...
Bangaway had no trouble at the first turn; his driver worked him up to fourth place, where he held on momentarily, then faded back. Out of the ruck of frail sulkies and flying legs came a bay filly named Miss Tilly, driven by 69-year-old Fred Egan and owned by Charles W. Phellis of Greenwich, Conn. Miss Tilly gamely fought off a closing rush by a bay colt named Volume to win the first heat by less than a length...
...Curvaceous Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 25, the most eye-filling thing in women's tennis since Britain's Kay Stammers Menzies retired. Since the memorable lace-pantie experiment at Wimbledon (TIME, July 4), Gussie has switched back to shorts, promises to bear down on her tennis, which she thinks has suffered from too much publicity...
...went to the coast for a second session. Then in Chicago, they took two sessions to test Ravinia's temperamental microphones. Said Pianist Rubinstein: "With this mike, I play what is fortissimo and drown Jascha. But what should I do? Play mouse? I go crazy if I hold back and go nibble-nibble; fortissimo is not like a mouse...
...Back in Hollywood, Elizabeth has refused to let a little thing like a continent come between them. She writes Bill every day and has little long-distance chats with him almost as often. Cost of one recent call: $145. At first they vowed to have no other dates, but Elizabeth felt like such a wallflower at one of Cobina Wright's parties she had that rule made a little more flexible...