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After the ensuing stampede, and after promising to make a park of the ruined lot and put a bust of Mr. Wickel in it, Edwards presented mild, bespectacled, disappointed Mr. Wickel with a check for $1,000. But there was no bank name on the check. Nevertheless, Mr. Wickel finally cashed it, at his own bank:-and received $1,000 in Confederate money. Asking for something more negotiable, he got a 1,400-lb. safe containing a little less than half of a $1,000 bill...
Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, vacationing in the U.S. before leaving for the Pacific, received several new attentions. At the University of New Mexico, he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters; in Manhattan, Sculptor Jo Davidson completed his bust of Pyle; in Washington, Sculptor Max Kalish prepared to do a statue of Pyle for the Smithsonian Institution's Living Hall of Washington TIME...
...Henry de Montherlant, arrogant, aristocratic novelist, enraged patriotic Frenchmen with his book Solstice de Juin, turned up for the opening of his new play, Reine Morte, with a bust of himself under his arm and a pocketful of medals struck with his profile. All Montherlant plays have been banned...
Carole Landis, blonde cinemarmful, who started off a U.S.O. tour last year by marrying Army Air Forces Major Thomas Wallace, returned from another U.S.O. tour to announce that the marriage was a bust. She blamed Hollywood's portrayal of her first tour and marriage in Four Jills in A Jeep. Said she: "I liked him as he was. Our trouble started when he tried to be like the man in the picture...
Miss America of 1944 was chosen from eleven finalists at the annual Atlantic City contest. She is Venus Ramey, a 19-year-old secretary who entered as ''Miss Washington, D.C.," became the first redhead to win the title. Height: 5 ft. 7 in. Weight: 125 lbs. Bust: 36½. Waist: 25. Hips: 37½. Thigh...