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...Hollywood Dance Hall in Yong-dungpo (a suburb of Seoul) last week, Sergeant John A. Wallace Jr. of Edmeston, N.Y., celebrated his 22nd birthday. Deciding to do well by himself and his friends, he hired the place, laid out a feast of roast beef, baked ham, potato salad, beer, whisky and champagne. While a six-piece native orchestra struggled manfully with U.S. dance music, G.I.s contentedly swung kisaeng girls (Korean equivalent of Japan's geishas) around the floor. Cost to Sergeant Wallace: $200. Said he happily: "This is my fourth birthday in the Far East, my second in Korea...
Marriage Reported: Svetlana Dzhugashvili, 26, redheaded daughter of Joseph Dzhugashvili, better known as Stalin; and Mikhail Kaganovich, son of Lazar Kaganovich, longtime Politburo member and Stalin's brother-in-law; in Moscow, July 3. British and Swiss newspapers said the nuptial feast in the Kremlin lasted a fortnight, with refreshments served on Czarist gold plate and sped with pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian peach brandy and vodka. Cost...
More than 1,000 followers with gold-embossed invitations to "The Marriage Feast of the Lamb" arrived in Philadelphia to help Father Divine, the self-proclaimed deity, celebrate the fifth anniversary of his wedding to Canadian-born Edna Rose Ritchings, whom he still proudly calls his "white, spotless virgin bride." For two days the "heavenly guests" shouted and sang as they waited a turn at the huge banquet table lighted with a neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table of Unity Mission...
...party did collect plenty of cash and names. "I think," said Dmytryk, "a great deal of money was taken out of Hollywood, particularly during the love feast during the war." And, said Dmytryk, there were plenty of big names in the party: Writer John Howard Lawson (another member of the "unfriendly ten," whom Dmytryk described as onetime "high lama of the party"), Directors Frank (College Holiday) Tuttle, Jules (The Naked City) Dassin, and Michael (Cyrano de Bergerac) Gordon...
Rearmament's Bulge. Rearmament's demands had also perked up many an industry, notably aluminum. Reynolds Metals net jumped from $1,454,257 to $5,696,031, a 300% rise. Big American Woolen Co., which has either a feast or a famine, watched its profits soar from a moth-eaten $230,000 to $1,095,000. And the once-sputtering airlines were purring like jets: American turned a $1,331,285 loss into a $2,914,610 profit. The building boom, nipped by restrictions on private housing, had merely shifted its base to the bigger boom of expanding...