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The Exile (Fairbanks; Universal) is one of those shy wildflowers which occasionally spring up almost unnoticed in the Hollywood hothouse. But because of its forced growth, half the freshness is off the bloom.
Born. To Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 37, his swashbuckling father's son (The Prisoner of Zenda, Gunga Din), and Mary Lee Epling Fairbanks, 36: their third daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melissa. Weight: 7 Ibs. 8 oz.
¶ In Cleveland, five of the nation's 67 surviving G.A.R. veterans turned up at their 81st annual encampment, elected one of their younger members, 102-year-old Robert W. Rownd of Ripley, N.Y., as commander in chief, prepared to look around for next year's camp site...
Fairbanks is wide open. Gambling flourishes in back rooms. Nobody in Fairbanks was surprised at the arrival of an air express package marked simply: "One magnet, dice, and electrical attachments." Alaska still views the old-fashioned brothel with sympathetic tolerance. Fairbanks authorities have sternly resisted attempts to close down blonde...
But, despite its reckless attitudes, its raw wildernesses, its enormous distances, Alaska is also a country of homes, automobiles, electric stoves, housewives, grocery clerks, schools. It has two golf courses, a college (the University of Alaska at Fairbanks), and 14 chambers of commerce. The old order and the new clash...