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Decorated Town. In return, Nichols Studded the area with Grecian urns, Italian marble fountains, Spanish gates and birdbaths imported from Europe. Sixteenth Century Italian columns bought from the William Randolph Hearst collection adorn a Kroger superstore. Though these ginger-bready decorations are anathema to severely functional planners such as Frank Lloyd Wright, the Country Club residents like them. Despite his weakness for the 16th Century, Nichols has also pioneered some 20th Century improvements, such as shopping areas in outlying districts, parking lots, rigid zoning laws...
Lela Rogers, busy mother of Ginger, discussed her suspicions of Communist hanky-panky in the movies. As an example she cited None But the Lonely Heart, a film full of "despair and hopelessness," with background music by Communist Hanns Eisler which was "moody and somber throughout . . . in the Russian manner." (Cracked a bystander: "It's a good thing Poe didn't write for the movies.") There was also a scene where a son refused to work in his mother's second-hand store and "squeeze pennies out of little people poorer than...
...Christmas trade, a new peak. Records have changed greatly since those early days of Mother Goose (whose rhymes are still the No. 1 sellers). The accent now is on handsome $3-and-up albums, which many a parent has found surprisingly entertaining. Samples: Decca's album with Ginger Rogers as Alice in Alice in Wonderland, and MGM's gentle satire on big business, The Bear That Wasn't, with Comedian Keenan Wynn...
Sued: Mrs. Lela Rogers, busy blonde mother of Cinemactress Ginger; for $2,000,000, by Playwright Emmet Lavery and Producer Martin Gosch, who charged libel and slander. Mrs. Rogers' remarks in a radio debate (with Lavery) on Communism in Hollywood, complained the suers, suggested that Lavery's play-to-be, The Gentleman from Athens, was un-American propaganda. One dismaying result, according to Gosch: five of the play's nine prospective backers suddenly backed...
...windowed brick factory in Farnumsville, Mass., orders for Tupperware were pouring in-from the American Thermos Bottle Co. for 7,000,000 nesting cups; from Canada Dry Ginger Ale for 50,000 bowls to sell with beverages; from Tek Corp. for 50,000 tumblers to sell with toothbrushes; from Camel for 300,000 cigaret cases. To top it off, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art would include two of Tupper's bowls in a forthcoming show of useful objects...