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Pygmalion-Shaw continued to hack away at his Galatea until Ava had what amounted to a nervous breakdown, went to a psychoanalyst. When Shaw finally decided that Ava was not a promising pupil, Ava acknowledged the breakup with the classically laconic comment: "He told me to leave, so I left...
With no apparent embarrassment, she explained her breakup with her longtime friend Ben ("Bugsy") Siegel, who was killed in the house he had rented for her in Beverly Hills. "I had a big fight with him because I hit a girl in the Flamingo and he told me I wasn't a lady ... I had been drinking and I left, and I went to Paris when...
...actual breakup still seemed a long way off. On the slow road ahead, the High Commission has to work through mountains of technical procedure. It has not even totted up Farben's assets-a preliminary to any sale...
Died. Frank R. McNinch, 76, member (under President Hoover) and chairman (under President Roosevelt) of the Federal Power Commission, later head of the Federal Communications Commission, longtime foe of bigness in the power industry, the first to administer the "death-sentence clause" which forced the breakup of the big public utilities holding companies; of pneumonia; in Washington...
...Alice Thompson, who was promoted from executive editor (over Mrs. V.'s head) only last spring (TIME, May 16). Explained Mrs. Thompson: "Helen thinks that Seventeen is not only her baby-and, true, it was her idea-but also her property." The two old friends were taking the breakup hard; neither was speaking to the other...