Word: cinemactors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Ilona Massey, 30, blonde, Budapest-born film singer (Balalaika}; and Alan Curtis, 31, cinemactor (Four Sons); each for the second time; in Los Angeles. Gushed Dancer Massey, who developed her affection for Curtis when she saw him minister to an injured woman in Boise, Idaho last spring: "He was so sweet and tender . . . that I just fell in love with him." Died. Laurence Hills, 61, long-time editor and general manager of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, oldtime member of the all-star staff of the turn-of-the-century New York...
...after his private plane plunked into a California field, long-lipped, string-bean Jimmy Stewart, best cinemactor of 1940, barged through a suitably large mob of female admirers into a Los Angeles trolley car, departed with other draftees for a year in the Army. Jimmy figured to make rather less money this year - $21 a month instead...
...Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart gorged himself up to Army weight, was told he would be called this month (his Los Angeles draft board had previously found him 10 lb. underweight-TIME, Feb. 17). Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's grandson Henry Stuart Hughes quit the Brown University faculty (history), joined the 103rd Field Artillery from Rhode Island. Draft Prospect William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, promised to resign his presidency of the New York Stock Exchange when he is called in May (see p. 78). Jaded, faded Jackie Coogan, 26, got his Hollywood board to draft him ahead of his normal...
...newcomer to OPM's staff of $1-a-yearlings who have patriotically left big jobs to help with the bigger job of U. S. defense. Yet no novice to wartime hurlyburly is PPB's chubby, good-natured Samuel Richard Fuller. Mr. Fuller, who looks like Cinemactor Eugene Pallette with spectacles, joined the Navy (at 37) in World War I, was soon working under Assistant Secretary Franklin Delano Roosevelt as boss of steel-buying for the Navy. After the war Commander Fuller went from steel to cotton, silk substitutes, today is president of North American Rayon Corp. and American...
...true of New York City was true of the rest of the 6,253 draft districts from Bar Harbor to San Luis Obispo. Told to administer the draft and grant deferments as they saw fit, no two boards saw eye to eye. In Los Angeles, a board placed Cinemactor James Stewart in Class I-B (for limited service) because he was ten pounds underweight. (Jimmy Stewart, weight 145, declared he wanted to serve.) In Chicago, a husky named Len Weiner was drafted although (at 245 Ib.) he was well over Army weight standards...