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...When Esther Clark first walked into the state welfare office at Tulsa back in 1942, there was no doubt that she was in real need of help. Her husband, John Clark, a junkyard laborer, was earning next to nothing, and they had six children to support. To tide the family over, the state began giving $90 a month to Esther Clark for the support of their three youngest children...
John Clark's emergency was not permanent. He got a new job at $75 a week, and promptly informed the state that he was earning enough to take care of the house and the groceries. But still the monthly checks kept coming. Flourishing in the new prosperity, Esther Clark began constructing a life of her own on the proceeds. She took up horseback riding, bought a saddle and boots and, finally, a horse for herself. Envious friends frequently observed her cantering nonchalantly around the Tulsa fairgrounds...
Texas Carnival (MGM) turns Red Skelton and Esther Williams loose in a familiar but cheerful Technicolored antic. They play a carnival sideshow team mistaken for a pair of multimillionaires at a grandiose Texas resort hotel...
...enemy of the Jews whose story is told in the Book of Esther. † There is no agreement about the exact number of Orthodox, Reform and Conservative Jews. Best current estimates: about 175,000 "families" enrolled in U.S. Orthodox congregations, 140,000 in Reform congregations, 150,000 in Conservative congregations. But each group claims a large additional number of unenrolled worshipers. *Among them: U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman. *A Jewish woman, at this point in her morning prayers, humbly thanks God that He has created her according to His will. *Oldest and biggest: Hebrew Union College (Reform) in Cincinnati...
...Esther Williams, 29, who has risen from the watery mediocrity of a dozen swimming pictures to become the nation's No. 2 female box-office star (No. 1: Betty Grable, 34). From Chillicothe, Ohio to South America to Hong Kong, moviegoers have enthusiastically succumbed to her smiling, wholesome, dismayingly athletic but very American brand...