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Disgruntled Russians curled up with a very good book-the U.S. best-seller Atomic Energy for Military Purposes by the "American Smyth" (Dr. Henry DeWolf Smyth, consultant for the Manhattan project). Thirty thousand copies were available to Russians who wanted to learn atomic "secrets" the easy...
Hedda Hopper, high-styled Hollywood gossip, wife No. 5 of marrying DeWolf Hopper's six, hopped to Manhattan for the opera opening, appeared in a chinchilla coat which she boasted was the only one in Hollywood-except for 88-year-old Lady (Elsie de Wolfe) Mendl's. She declared she would never marry again, explained why: "What I attract is too young. What I should attract...
Besides Bishop Manning, there are two other active diocesan bishops of retirement age: Bishop James DeWolf Perry of Rhode Island (72), Bishop John Chanler White of Springfield, Ill. (76). By last week Bishop White had also swung into action. "It is an 'ex post facto' law," he cried. "They cannot pass a law compelling me to retire. Neither Bishop Manning, Bishop Perry nor I contemplate retiring." Neither could the ruling be repealed - at least for five years. But a repeal can be started at the next General Convention, which will meet in 1946 in San Francisco...
Paris Green. Come Down, My Evenin' Star was the work of a tunesmith named John ("Honey") Stromberg, who wrote for the revues at the old Weber & Fields Music Hall when David Warfield, Fay Templeton, DeWolf Hopper and Willie Collier were among its stars. When Lillian made her debut there in 1899 in a travesty on The Girl from Maxim's, Honey Stromberg was her musical director. For four years he wrote his finest tunes for her. One day in 1902 Honey, an acute sufferer from chronic rheumatism, was reported seriously ill at his home in Freeport, Long Island...
...risen in four years to challenge Lolly Parsons as chief outlet for Hollywood publicity. At 52, brown-haired, boisterous Hedda, who started life as plain Pennsylvania Quakeress Elda Furry, has been nearly 25 years in the movies (acting in over 100 pictures), was the fifth of the late Actor DeWolf Hopper's six wives, between times got "kicked around plenty" while staging fashion shows, coaching actors, selling real estate, even running for political office...