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...plot has curious Freudian undertones: round-faced Gale Storm, 31, and her prancing-goat TV father, played by oldtime Silent Cinemactor Charles (Seventh Heaven) Farrell, 51, spend their half-hour each week trying to keep each other from falling in love with outsiders who might break up their cozy family of two. Margie has made the jump from television (sponsor: Scott Paper Co.) to radio, where Philip Morris has it on both CBS and Mutual. It is thus the first radio and TV show to span three networks. On radio the Nielsen ratings place it third, behind Lux Theater...
While her husband settled quietly into the insurance business, Gale labored on the wrong side of Hollywood's film tracks in westerns, quicky murders and musicals. "I was no Garbo," she recalls, "just medium lousy. But I loved it. They used to ask me if they could start a new picture or was I pregnant again." TV has brought her greater fame than movies ever did, but Gale insists: "My career is just the frosting on the cake, and I mean that." The girl who used to be Josephine Owaissa Cottle admits cheerfully: "I never had it so good...
Saturday rain, driven by gale winds, turned the Business School Field into a sloppy sea of mud, through which the Princeton Tigers waded to a 2 to 0 victory over the varsity soccer team...
This beautiful "gesture of defiance flung at the mechanical age" met the fate of many a lovely sailing-ship. In 1910 at the mouth of the English Channel she was rammed by a "blundering steamer," was so weakened that a subsequent gale broke her back and sent her aground...
...enter the Age of Tension, man . . . comes closer in his methods of building to the forces and mechanics of nature than ever before. The oak tree holds its own against the gale only because its roots are strong enough to resist the pull of the wind, and the fibers of its branches restrain the buffeting with their tautness . . . All living things exist in a state of constant tension; only the inanimate and the dead rest in place by weight alone, rock piled on rock and slab leaning against slab. All truly modern building is alive...