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...More Children. By clinging tightly to its determinedly loyal following, O'Connor, Moffatt's has managed to pay off most of the debt from its new building, even to prosper with the tide of Bay Area war money. But ruddy, O'C.M. President Joseph V. Costello, who knew lean days in prewar San Francisco, decided to sell out. Reason: in his 60s, President Costello has only one nephew who is interested in the business. Said a competitor: "This was a good time to sell. It's just one of those deals where the family finally runs...
...little life into what could have been a plotless horror a la Abbott and Costello, the producers have added murder and mystery to provide a spine for an otherwise invertebrate cinema. When flea trainer Allen is left an inheritance of five chairs, which he sells, and then finds that one of them has a fortune tucked away inside, there begins a routine chase involving the usual fusillade of shots and usual ending . . . Fred with a fistful of greenbacks...
Model Behavior. In Manhattan, Detective James Costello, patrolling Broadway in the small hours, noticed a shattered show window displaying four dummies, three nude, one clothed. When the clothed dummy twitched, Detective Costello reached in and arrested one Albert Gibson for burglary...
...Styles came to California in 1932. For twelve years he read poetry, platitudes and "notes from my magic scrapbook of life" over the radio, became a favorite of Los Angeles housewives. Last May he took his kitchen popularity into politics, trounced union-hating John M. Costello in the Democratic primary. Hollywood's liberal Democrats cheered. P.A.C. boasted nationally that this was their work. But these happy pink faces turned lobster red when Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner dug up the fact that Styles had been a Klansman in Queens County...
...Shibe Park for a jamboree. The hot time was in honor of one Cornelius McGillicuddy, 81, from East Brookfield, Mass. Connie Mack had finished a half-century of big-league baseball management (Pittsburgh, three years; Milwaukee, four years; the Philadelphia Athletics, 43 years).* A jazz band let go, Abbott & Costello clowned. Master of Ceremonies Ted Husing stepped to the microphone near home plate to read a telegram from Franklin Delano Roosevelt: ". . . my sincere and best wishes on your Golden Jubilee . . . may your score card continue to wave from the dugout...