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Adopted. By Lucille le Sueur Fairbanks Tone Terry (Cinemactress Joan Crawford) and Actor-Husband Phillip: an eight-year-old boy, thereupon named Phillip Jr. The actress adopted a four-month-old girl in 1940, returned another adopted son at his mother's request...
When a producer has a few extra millions that are feeling lonely, he concocts something like "The Crystal Ball." Not unlike the many thousand Melvyn Douglas-Norma Shearer-Joan Crawford-Robert Taylor et al gay sophisticated comedies that Hollywood has created under the categorical title of Ars Gratia Artis, "The Crystal Ball," with the Paulette Goddard-Ray Milland combo, makes a more distinctive showing at the box office than on the screen. Definitely an argument for the $25,000 a year income ceiling...
...Dallas last week Frederick Coolidge Crawford, recently elected president of the National Association of Manufacturers, dented the armor of N.A.M.'s traditional foreign-trade policy. As late as 1940 N.A.M. vigorously opposed continuation of the Hull reciprocal trade treaties, declared against tariff reductions. Now Crawford, in line with his philosophy of free competition (TIME, March 1), specifically called for the elimination of inflexible tariffs and declared: "There will be another war in 25 to 30 years if nations close up behind rigid trade barriers." His declaration raised hopes in some quarters that N.A.M. would support the extension...
Statesman at Play & Work. In a graphically described roadhouse ("Around a corner an arch of stout knotty pine opened into a big living room lit from skulls of longhorn cattle with electric bulbs in them set in a row round the varnished log walls"), Crawford is seen at play in blue-striped pajamas with a statuesque torch singer. In time he acquires a semi-Fascist radio station, is surrounded by more & more sinister henchmen. It becomes Tyler's business to take the rap for Crawford before a Federal grand jury and to be publicly repudiated by the demagogue...
Real test of Mr. Crawford's international philosophy will lie in how the National Association of Manufacturers throws its weight when the Hull reciprocal tariff policy comes up for its Congressional test this spring...