Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco almost ran down her newest romance (according to the gossip columnists) when Maestro Leopold Stokowski stepped off a train at Truckee, Calif, into a Sierra Nevada snowstorm to help wait out her Reno divorce (due April 20). Meeting him in a secondhand Cadillac which she had just learned to drive, Gloria released the clutch as he crossed in front of the car. Only a cadenza-like leap saved him. Unruffled, the heiress drove him to her Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working...
...Katzenjammer twins, Fauria and Dranetz, have looked especially broad from the rear during this week, it is not due to too much calisthenics, but to a set of pillows which the boys found necessary after last Sunday's riding experience. Having seen how these two Mighty Mites have suffered how could anyone think of trying such sport again...
...cutbacks are approximately the same as WPB tentatively set a month ago (TIME, March 19). Big though they seem, they will bring only a tantalizing trickle of civilian goods at the start. The reason: WPB will first shore up the civilian economy at some of its dangerously weak spots, due chiefly to the shortage of railroad rolling stock and agricultural equipment...
Steady slogging through some of the worst jungle in the world is not only uncomfortable but makes dull copy, which is no doubt why Burma has become the most forgotten front of the war. "Objective Burma" is Warner Brothers' attempt to give the front its due, and is a good professional job of movie-making as well...
...years 1925-39. Thus, there was no reason to suppose that a boost in profits by a boost in price ceilings would mean more meat on U.S. dinner tables. The chief cause of the meat shortage, said he, was less the price squeeze than bad distribution. This is due chiefly to the Federal Government's system of buying meat for the armed forces, Lend-Lease, etc. It can buy only from the big, federally inspected packing houses which also supply most big cities. Thus, small packers who supply only markets within their own state have more than their share...