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Married. Army Lieut. John Thompson ("Jack") Dorrance, 23, only male heir to the Campbell soup millions (150), peacetime yacht-fancier, wartime instructor at Camp Crowder in Joplin, Mo.; and Mary Alice Bennett, 22, daughter of a Joplin mining man; in Joplin...
Only trouble with this scheme is that many a scrap owner may sniff higher prices, hold out for still fancier prices. Meanwhile WPB had its Industrial Salvage Committees going hot & heavy in 400 U.S. cities. Chief argument: patriotism. Thus Manhattan milliners surprised everybody, chipped in 150 tons of scrap (partly from eight huge hat-making presses); Maryland State officials collected a batch of square-cornered World War I tanks, started them on their last mile into a roaring steel furnace...
...Hedda Hopper (TIME, May 25) gives the impression that my good friend John Chapman was dropped along with his column. Hedda Hopper's gossip may have triumphed over John Chapman's facts, but I happen to know that the New York Daily News is not dropping fact fancier John Chapman. I think Chapman readers would be pleased to know this fact...
Seldom had a loyal radio audience floundered in such a quandary. To add to the confusion: on the West Coast, Blue continued to carry Red Ryder, Mutual continued to carry the Lone Ranger. Said one horse-opera fancier: "All we need now is a gun fight between those...
...mystery was finally solved, however, when a lady, who did not divulge her name, but characterized herself as a "cat-fancier," phoned to inform the informers that the animals are rare, but not valuable. "They are half-breeds," she explained, "like mules...