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Paulette Goddard, long an inspiration for students of anatomy, announced that she and her husband, Burgess Meredith (see below), planned to establish scholarship funds in a number of U.S. colleges and universities. The first scholarship (valued at $10,000) will go to the University of Southern California, to be used for scientific research...
Paulette Goddard, bright-eyed cinemadcap, childless through two marriages (to one Edgar James, and Charlie Chaplin), announced, in the sixth month of her third (to Army Captain Burgess Meredith), when "somehow the news got around," that she expects a baby next June or July...
...Captain Burgess Meredith was placed on inactive duty by the U.S. Army, assumed the role of Columnist Ernie Pyle in a Hollywood version of Pyle's best seller, Here Is Your...
...labors at Bretton Woods last July, England's Lord Keynes challenged the critics of the Keynes-White plan (for an international Fund and Bank - TIME, July 31). Said he, in sum, the critics must do more than criticize; they must show a better program. Last week W. Randolph Burgess, vice chairman of the National City Bank of New York, accepting the presidency of the American Bankers Association, accepted the challenge. Banker Burgess may have been disturbed by U.S. bankers' criticisms of the Bretton Woods plan - which in general have not offered a constructive substitute...
Admittedly most of the criticisms had come from conservative elements, which are most vocal. But Banker Burgess wanted to be constructive. Forthwith he set an A.B.A. committee to the task of restudying and possibly drafting simplified or alternative ideas to the Bretton Woods proposals...