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...debt. Before he could finish his explanation Army officers whisked him away to forbidding old Castle William on Governor's Island, where he was given a pair of olive-drab dungarees to replace his double-breasted suit. For the second time in his life Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (as Prisoner 289) wore a uniform-the prison uniform-of the U. S. Army...
...when he spent two months of a five-year sentence on Governor's Island for skipping the Wartime draft. He escaped to Germany, where he remained for 19 years. There he wed a gardener's daughter, sired five children. Now living in Philadelphia with Grover Bergdoll's aging, militant mother, Mrs. Berta Bergdoll and five-year-old son Erwin (see cut) had to go to Governor's Island to greet...
Most good playwrights get a break, but screenwriters are under a big bushel. Most screenwriters with big names made them elsewhere, like Ben Hecht, Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker. Some, like Grover Jones and Frances Marion, have big names in Hollywood that mean little to outsiders. Others, like Wesley Ruggles' Claude Binyon or Frank Capra's Robert Riskin, won fame as co-members of celebrated director-writer teams. Still others, like Darryl Zanuck and Alfred Hitchcock, got their glory in bigger jobs. As compensation for their comparative obscurity, screen authors work more steadily than playwrights and generally make more...
...Schwartz, Waukegan, Ill. Nathan H. Garrick Jr. Nancy McLeod, Newton Thomas F. Garvey Mary Lee, Boston Charles S. Glesson Christine Stillman, Wareham George S. Goldstein Frances Sanders, Hartford, Conn. Eli Goldston Barbara Cohen, Brookline Richard W. Greenebaum Bernadetta Handrahan, Brockton Roger C. Griffin Jr. Eleanor Mastin, Needham Ralph W. Grover Carol Spahr, Bellerose David Hadden Katharine Claflin, Belmont William F. Haneman Elizabeth Breed, Chestnut Hill Arthur S. Harrison Louise Stickler, Hartford, Conn. Melvin S. Hathaway Margaret Chamberlain, Hartford, Conn. David Hodgdon Edith Russell, Boston Guy, Holman Bulah Ratliff, New York John W. Huling Barbara Sherry, Worcester Morton B. Jackson Mary...
...Otelia Compton, 80, whom Mrs. James Rooseveltt decorated as "American Mother of 1939" (her children: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Karl T. Compton; Washington Attorney Wilson M. Compton; University of Chicago Physics Professor Dr. Arthur Compton; Mrs. Herbert Compton Rice, principal of Christian College in Allahabad, India). Grover Aloysius Whalen absented himself long enough to chitchat on Major Bowes's Amateur Hour, received 162 listener-votes as "best amateur," more than 50 of them from California...