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Jacques Deval, 54, French dramatizer of drawing-room gaieties and boudoir confusions (Her Cardboard Lover, Tovarich, Boudoir), was sued for "adequate" separate maintenance in Manhattan by Actress-Wife Else Argall, 30. She charged that he got his boudoirs confused, had told her his gaieties were "necessary in order to stimulate his creative talents as a writer...
...Philharmonic. But then a Chilean impresario, Jorge Estradé, signed him up for a Havana concert in February with the same orchestra. In due time, Stokie arrived with his luscious, 21-year-old wife, Gloria, bustled into Havana's Hotel Nacional. Soon the lobby boasted a life-size cardboard cutout of Stokowski, announcing that he would conduct the Beethoven Ninth on Feb.11...
...What an incredible, easygoing place the Senate is!" he wrote. "As I stood in the lobby a boy in knickerbockers walked by with a carton of ice cream and a cardboard spoon...
Meanwhile the effects of the steel strike were everywhere apparent: 16,000 miners were laid off in coal mines, 5,000 railroad workers in Pittsburgh, 15,000 auto workers at Ford. In New York City, delivery of milk in cardboard containers was reduced by an estimated 35% because the containers are made by American Can Co., which was closed by the strike...
...weathered shacks squat dismally in a muddy hill hollow amid slatternly fences, outhouses and discarded tires. The women and children straggled past the empty coalies on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad spur, and up a barren knoll to the tipple of the Belva Mine. Smoke and burned fragments of cardboard and paper were puffing hotly from the tunnel mouth...