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Married. Helen Beall Houston, daughter of President David Franklin Houston of Mutual Life Insurance Co.; and Robert Caldwell Fatten; in Cold Spring Harbor...
...employes, print its record. Not a single Senator opposed this graceful fadeout. Senator Connally temperately limited himself to declaiming: "The burglar who breaks into a house at night doesn't believe in private rights or security. The jackal or the hyena that invades a cemetery to fatten its own body by digging up the dead does not believe in the sanctity of the tomb. . . . Let [the Nye committee] come out of the cemeteries and catacombs and get out in the daylight...
...work as Brady, Universal paid Edward Arnold $5,000 a week, ordered him to fatten up. Eating is Actor Arnold's only hobby. In his dressing room, the only one on the Universal lot with a private kitchen, he consumed enormous lunches of boiled beef with horseradish sauce, crawfish, Wiener Schnitzel and beer. He took pleasure in eating on the set, put on 15 lb. while the picture was in production. At the Beverly Crest house where he lives with his wife and three children, and where each piece of furniture is tagged with a brass plate giving...
Perhaps prophetically, the stamp ducks look a little plumper than the ones which "Ding" used to put in his conservation-propagandizing cartoons. He hopes the proceeds from the stamp sale will help fatten all the wild ducks in the land. Said he last week: "No one is under any obligation to kill a duck just because he owns a Federal hunting stamp, nor is there any rule to prevent a man who wants to help restore the migratory waterfowl from purchasing several of these duck-saving stamps. Every dollar will be devoted to the cause of conservation...
Best feature idea Editor Patterson ever had was to fatten the size of the Sunday comic section. Because he felt that the encroachment of comic advertising had made the real funny strips too small, he ordered the section increased from eight to 16 pages last autumn. He reckoned that the addition might bring a 50,000 circulation gain. Instead the Sunday circulation, which then averaged 2,000,000, leaped enormously every Sunday until last month when it hit 2,313,000, a gain of more than 500,000 over last spring. Advertising, daily and Sunday, also gained enormously...