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...wife, Faye Emerson. Meyer claimed to have picked up over $1,000 worth of their hotel, bar, party and race-track checks. On the distaff side, the names read like theater marquees or the roll call at Hollywood's Central Casting. Actresses Lana Turner, Linda Darnell and Ava Gardner were said to be on the committee's list. A leggy, blonde ex-riveter named Judy Cook declared that she had been paid $100 to put on her swimming act in the Hughes pool for visiting dignitaries. Actress Myrna Dell and Lovelies Marilyn ("Miss America, 1946") Buferd and Wendy...
...York Daily News's inquiring reporter served up some samples. Herbert Bayard Swope thought the longer dresses neither revealing nor concealing-just dull. Onetime Cinemactress and Clothes Horse Gloria Swanson said: "They flatter those whose knees do not stand leg-revealing clothes." Look's Mrs. Gardner Cowles: "They make women look long, lean and restricted...
...money. Some of the picture's trimmings are shrewder stuff. There are viciously funny glimpses of a commercial photographer, a comedian (Keenan Wynn), an actor's agent (Edward Arnold) and two skilled script-plumbers; and the singing commercials are as horribly funny as the real thing. Ava Gardner is lush as the nightclub singer and Clark Gable plays his huckster firmly...
Everywhere they sensed the world's deep economic agony. In one day in Shanghai, the rate on the dollar changed from 40,000 Chinese dollars to 46,000. For Gardner Cowles of the Des Moines Register and Tribune the trip was old-hat; he had done it before with the late Wendell Willkie. Then he had come back hopeful. This time he sensed a worldwide feeling that peace "had been fumbled." The U.S., he feared, would not be able to "pick up all the checks...
Ackland's nieces & nephews rushed to court to seek the fortune they had given up as lost. The University of North Carolina (with the late Ambassador to Britain O. Max Gardner as lawyer) and Rollins (with ex-U.S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings) followed. First to lose out, after five years' litigation, were the nieces & nephews. That left the two colleges to fight it out between themselves...