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Died. Channing Pollock, 66, white-maned drama critic, playwright (The Fool, The House Beautiful, The Enemy), voluble lecturer and pamphleteer; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Shoreham...
Married. Ed Wynn (real name: Isaiah Edwin Leopold), 59, lisping, giggling star of stage, screen, and radio, author-producer of Broadway hits (The Perfect Fool, The Grab Bag, Ed Wynn's Carnival), father of Cinemactor Keenan Wynn; and Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt, 41, of New Rochelle, N.Y.; he for the third time; she for the second; in Las Vegas...
Strikes had swept the country. The President's attempt to bring management and labor together in conference ended in fiasco. Walter Reuther shut down General Motors, Phil Murray shut down steel, and by January there were more people on strike than ever before in U.S. history. On April Fool's Day John Lewis shut the soft coal mines and the next month Messrs. Whitney & Johnston stopped the railroads...
...thousands of talented artists employed in moviemaking are rarely permitted to fool around with art. Hollywood is a hard-pressed manufacturing center; it must turn out a reliable product that can be peddled to an exacting mass market. The 56 million customers know-or are told that they know-exactly what they want...
...Lincoln was deficient in those little links which make up the chain of woman's happiness. . . . The last message I ever received from him was about a year after we parted. . . . He said to my sister, 'Tell your sister that I think she was a great fool, because she did not stay here, and marry me.' Characteristic...