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Call the Celebrities. Hollywood fought glamor with glamor. The Hollywood-for-Dewey Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...
These Civil Service Women are glad to do their part and are not asking for any glamor or publicity, but they do expect to have their services toward the winning of this war recognized along with the other women of this country...
...Ayres, onetime cinema glamor boy, now a gaunt and grizzled chaplain's aide at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, decided that he had found what he had always wanted. The former "Dr. Kildare"* plans to enter a seminary after the Avar, eventually preach from a Congregational pulpit. Said he: "I want to continue this work, God willing...
...Many of the illustrations are photographs, made by cameras whose eyes had not lost their innocence. Many others are drawings, some as stripped and lucid as blueprints. Others blend the clean precisions of semimechanical drawing with proud, naive little achievements that catch the shine of leather and paint, the glamor of glass, the tilt of a driver's sporting face...
Married. Gloria Baker Topping, 24, café-society glamor girl of 1937, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10.000.000); and Brigadier General Edward Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr., tin-plate heir ($9,000,000), who is now a naval lieutenant overseas, ended in divorce last year...