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...York Herald Tribune Edward Angly replaced Ralph Waldo Barnes, who underwent an operation for gallstones last fortnight, was still in hospital. To London by Atlantic Clipper Hearst's International News Service rushed William Chaplin when Chief Correspondent William Hillman resigned to become European Manager for Collier...
Frank Gervasi, onetime I. N. S. man, last week got permission to go for Collier's; then at week's end his authorization was canceled. Reason: other magazines had equal rights with Collier's, twelve U. S. newsmen had been set as a limit...
...request, the Communist weekly New Masses dropped from its masthead the name of salty "Robert Forsythe" (real name: Kyle Crichton of Collier's). George Wishnak, onetime business manager of the acrobatic Daily Worker, explained his withdrawal from the Party: "Anyone . . . who continues to affiliate himself with or to express sympathy for the elements that support this alliance of Soviet Russia with Nazi Germany, if he is to be consistent, must pray for a Hitler victory. This I refuse...
...steadily through the Pacific nights have marked the positions of California's "floating casinos," the gambling ships Rex, Texas, Showboat and Tango. Rows of scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might crave. Below were elegant dining rooms, bars, long rows of slot machines...
Invitation to Happiness, by the six-year-old writer-director combination of Claude Binyon and Wesley Ruggles, is not exactly up Cinemactress Dunne's gay alley, but it is a setup for headstrong Cinemactor MacMurray, a field day for Character Actors William Collier Sr. and Charles Ruggles, Wesley's brother...