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Last week Lady MacRobert took out her pen and checkbook again. She sent Sir Archibald Sinclair ?20,000 to purchase four fighter planes for use "on fronts where they could aid Russia." She asked that three of the planes be named for her sons, that the fourth be called "MacRobert Salute to Russia (Lady)." "Had I been a man, I, too would have flown," said gallant Lady MacRobert...
They sing in harmony which is not merely close but adhesive. Tall, dark La-Verne, 25, is a sort of baritone, and the one who worries about getting places on time. Tomboy Maxene, 23, a soprano of sorts, handles the Andrews checkbook. Blonde, merry Patty, 22, likes to clown, says: "I'm happy because I got no brains. Say, I don't know from nothing...
...agents and longshoremen, and went off at sea. They sank some 40 ships in a few months. When he was finally driven out of the U.S., the British stopped Papen at Falmouth. He had a safe conduct for himself, but among the papers which the British confiscated was his checkbook. Thorough Prussian, Papen had written out in full on the stubs the names of his secret agents, the sums he paid them, and the nature of their services...
...judgment, of expenses borne out of habit, of big installments still being paid on past mistakes. Like private budgets, too, was its patient, powerless, hopeful meaninglessness: there was no magic in it that would keep the U. S. within its income-just as a budgeted citizen looks over his checkbook and wonders what-the-George all those stubs marked "Cash" went...
Arizona (Columbia), not to be confused with California, Colorado, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, Wyoming or Little Old New York, is a remnant of pre-War Hollywood economy when a $2,000,000 budget was as commonplace an item in a producer's checkbook as a mink coat for the wife. Needing a fancy jewel to decorate its year's offerings, Columbia allotted it $1,500,000. Producer-Director Ruggles hiked his company off to a location near Tucson, battled weather, dust and sickness last summer until his costs had mounted to $2,250,000. Rival studios, shaving...