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...From Clare Boothe and Vincent Sheean over WOR-Mutual that evening came sober talk of the U.S. task. Said Sheean: "Shall we pretend, as I have heard so-called experts pretend today on the radio, that this thing is easy? . . . Let us get ready for a series of shocks...
Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye ignored ex-wives Gloria Swanson, Constance Bennett when he answered an inquiring reporter's query: With what five women would he like to retire from business? His five: Ina Claire, Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Clare Boothe, Elsa Maxwell, Greta Garbo...
...post-Verne Marshall Gazette is doing well. With circulation at an all-time high (44,701), it now prints news on the front page, carries on more moderately and grammatically under capable former Associate Editor Harry E. Boyd and Verne's younger, smaller, quieter brother Clare. Said Editor-in-Chief Clare Marshall to his staff: "We're still a strong crusading paper. But when you have a grievance, keep it out of the news story...
...when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came to rest on his trim grey head. >> John L Lewis' maid refused to sit in a Jim Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) asked that "applause" (to his speech) be stricken from the Congressional Record "because there was none." Speaker Sam Rayburn suggested making such omissions permanent and universal. >> Eleanor Roosevelt offered to refund her half of a $1,000 fee (shared by her agent) for speaking at a Burlington...
Cindy Lou Bethany of Authoress Clare Boothe's play was a syrupy Southern blue blood who went to a Connecticut house-party with a Hollywood director to meet a Hollywood producer and salt away the screen role of Velvet O'Toole, the Confederate heroine of the national best-seller Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Paramount's Cindy Lou (Mary Martin) is an out-of-work Broadway chorine who scurries to her ancestral Southern home after learning that a Broadway director (night-blooming Don Ameche) is Dixie-bound to scour the South for a sure-nuf Southern belle...