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Yamashita inspected the broken Maginot Line and German fortifications on the French coast. He watched German flyers in training. He is said to have persuaded Hermann Goring, for whom he had wangled a decorative bauble, the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun, to let him fly in a raid over Britain...
...Betty Cordon, the Stork Club's official G. G. No. 1, started back to school to learn to be a kindergarten teacher. Ann Sheridan, the Harvard Lampoon's onetime choice for "least likely to succeed," joined President James Bryant Conant as an honorary editor of the literary Harvard Advocate. Sailors of the U.S. Navy decided buxom Cinemactress Jane Russell was "the girl we'd like most to have waiting for us in every port," sent her six loving cups. Home with mother was Lenore Lemmon, ten-day bride of playful Jakie Webb. Lenore said she had found...
...bonus for her speedup. With it she bought 25 of Winston Churchill's favorite cigars, marked their box with the inscription: "From Evelyn Duncan, holder of the world's munition record." As the Prime Minister toured Birmingham's bombed areas, she ran through a police cordon, handed Winnie the cigars, kissed his hand. Said Winnie, gruffly: "Thank you very much, my dear, and thank you for what you are doing...
...Manhattan's Stork Club a group of café debs elected Betty Cordon, 18, official No. 1 Glamor Girl of the new season. Particulars: her height is 5 ft. 1½ in., weight 100 lb., waist 21 in., hair blonde, eyes grey-green. Her father is a banker (assistant vice president of Manufacturers Trust Co.). She likes chitlin's (pig's intestines). Her comment on the election: "Ridiculous. . . . A glamor girl should be tall, dark, and svelte. . . . I don't know what my parents will think...
Ethel Barrymore came early, carrying a box lunch. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt flew down from Saratoga. By 10 a.m., three and a half hours before game time, 50,000 fans had been turned away. Extra policemen were called to form a cordon around the park. Mobs, stampeding out of nearby subways, were urged to go back home unless they had reserved seats...