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...most articulate and acidulous opponents of a separate U.S. Air Force is Rear Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell, U.S.N. (retired). Arguing his case in Collier's last week, Admiral Yarnell told a horrendous tale of manslaughter committed by the R.A.F. and the Italian Air Force (both independent) through ignorance of military and naval matters. Excerpts: > "Forty-eight hours before the Germans actually invaded Norway, R.A.F. scout planes saw transport ships churning through the North Sea. Only mildly interested in the phenomenon, they reported it through routine channels. . . . Had the pilots been wise in naval matters, wise enough to understand what...
Writer John Collier (His Monkey Wife) was ordered by a Los Angeles court to pay Actress Shirley Palmer Collier $150-a-week temporary alimony pending trial of her divorce suit...
...stenographer and part-time editor of the puny Boston Beacon, she got a job with the Woman's Home Companion at $18 a week. Last week Gertrude Lane died, a late-fiftyish spinster, one of the few great women editors* in the U.S., a vice president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., and although she had never asked for a raise, earning $52,000 a year...
...Collier's the President continued a series of articles defending his 1937 fight to reform the Supreme Court, his attempt to purge Congress in 1938. "These forces," wrote the President, "had tried stubbornly ... to stop our program of reform. They had failed. . . . Therefore, through the years of 1937 and 1938, their activities to impede progress and to bring about a repeal ... of the New Deal . . .were redoubled." At a press conference last week the President tartly rebuked a newsman for dragging party questions into the picture when the U.S. is in danger. But when it came...
There is nothing wrong with his age, says Father (Adolphe Menjou), that Leslie Collier (Miss Swanson) can't cure; so de la Falaise, Marquis de la Coudraye, in 1925, she became the first Hollywood actress to enter London and Paris society, which found her "less like an actress and more like a lady than you could imagine." Legend has it that Miss Swanson prefaced her triumphal return to Hollywood with the Marquis by telegraphing Paramount: "Am arriving with the Marquis tomorrow. Please arrange ovation." Gloria Swanson, single once again after her four marriages, has a busy and original mind...