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...personality front, Harry Truman (Taurus) seemed in for a rise in prestige and a decline in health, Winston Churchill (Sagittarius) for a "permanent change of residence," the C.I.O.'s Phil Murray (Gemini) for "a churning year," Crooner Frank Sinatra (Sagittarius) for "increased power." Things were not going so well-astrology-wise-with Generalissimo Stalin (Sagittarius). The current opposition of Uranus to the Sun in Stalin's chart pointed inexorably toward the end of his trail, certainly...
...arrived in Hollywood in September 1942. Probably Metro's most promising ingenue, she is the opposite of the typical young screen sparkler, looks and acts more like a well-adjusted schoolgirl from Pelham, N.Y.-which she is. Retiring, unflighty, even ungregarious, she lives quietly with her husband, reformed Crooner Dick Powell, 41, in a two-bedroom country house in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood. She cooks, takes art lessons, likes to read mystery stories, rarely makes the Hollywood nightclubs...
Born. To Ruby Keeler, 35, light-footed dancing star of cinemusicals in the heavy-footed '30s, onetime wife of pop-eyed Mammy-Crooner Al Jolson; and John Homer Lowe, 33, Pasadena broker and wartime navy lieutenant: their third child, first son. Name: John Lowe III. weight...
Princess Elizabeth, Britain's 19-year-old heiress presumptive, who recently gave an inkling of what goes on in her pretty young head by choosing Bing Crosby as her favorite crooner, waltzed with a chef in the Royal Servants' Hall of Buckingham Palace. In the same room Lillibet's royal father was taking a whirl with the butler's wife, and her mother with a footman. The occasion: the household staff's annual Christmas party, at which the members of the royal family customarily democratize, the staff admirably Crichton...
Among its varied villains, Walter Slezak is outstanding as the sly, slippery, fat one. As the deadpan tough guy, Dick Powell is more acceptable than he ever was as a tirelessly boyish cinemusical crooner. As a thriller-a cinema form which Hollywood often does expertly-Cornered is head-&-shoulders above the average...