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...winners: 1) Shirley Temple 2) Clark Gable 3) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers 4) Robert Taylor 5) Joe E. Brown 6) Dick Powell 7) Joan Crawford 8) Claudette Colbert 9) Jeanette MacDonald 10) Gary Cooper Shirley Temple's margin over her nearest rival was bigger this year than last. New names among this year's first ten were Taylor, MacDonald and Cooper. Demoted, to the next group of 15 "honor stars," were James Cagney and Wallace Beery. The late Will Rogers...
...Crawford Burton, the so-called and self-styled gentleman rider has finally won damages for the photograph of him that they published and that embarrassed him so much. Mr. Burton got it both coming and going, after he had sold his manly body, clad in his brilliant silks, to the Camel cigarette people for the pittance...
...have been a subscriber to your publication almost from the beginning and have derived great satisfaction, pleasure and information from reading it; however this letter is written as a protest against the unwarranted, indelicate, vulgar way in which the birth of the Crawford child was described [TIME...
...think for sheer excellence in terseness of writing I have seldom read anything better than your account of Effie Crawford's pre-present and post-natal experiences. The condensation of economic, sociologic, psychologic, and physiologic into those brief paragraphs was indeed masterful...
...complex Crawford family left the hospital, freighted with baby formulas, feeding schedules and pediatric advice which they could scarcely follow in their one-room shack. Effie told the world at large: "We all's gonna name the baby Bert J. Moses Crawford. The Bert J. don't mean anything, but we don't want people calling him Moses...