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Millionaire Philip Knight Wrigley has had many radical ideas since he inherited his father's gum and baseball empire in 1932. He popularized Ladies' Day at big-league ball parks. He introduced sticks of gum to U.S. Army combat rations. For $185,000 he bought Dizzy Dean after his best pitching days were over. Last week P. K. Wrigley unwrapped his latest idea: a professional softball league for women...
This sailing was unlike those that had gone before. Grey-uniformed Red Cross workers, long prohibited by security requirements from attending troop embarkations, now passed out doughnuts and coffee, candy and chewing gum. On the piers bands were playing-for the first time in World War II-and the troops broke into thankful grins...
...WAVES with a Brownie, taking pictures down by the River, wandered into the Weld Beat Club and asked if they might shove off to sea in a shell. Mr. Dennison, crew instructor, suggested that they consult their own athletic instructor about arrangements. They did, and now at regular gum hours those who certify that they can swim 100 yards and "hereby take the responsibility for my life in my own hands" realize the happy ambition of every WAVE to get off of dry land...
...memories was a reception at which self-possessed Madame Chiang Kai-shek sat on a dais, received a hundred-odd noted filmsters playing bit parts. Among them: Joan Bennett, first to be presented; Marlene Dietrich, who hovered long at the Madame's side; Gary Cooper, who chewed gum and stood with his hands in his pockets; Fred Astaire, who blushed when she spoke to him; Producer David Selznick's wife Irene and Orson Welles, who gazed gravely and long (see cut). In Hollywood Mme. Chiang spoke to an overflow crowd at the Hollywood Bowl, held what...
...Cross Field Director Thomas S. Montgomery could hardly miss being nicknamed "Tiny"-he stands 6 ft. 8 ½ in., weighs a whopping 275 Ib. Too oversized to enlist, he squeezed his bulk into a Red Cross uniform, soon became noted on Guadalcanal for his frontline chant: "Chewing gum, candy, popcorn, soda pop. What'll you have, boys?" Wandering about the jungle alone, Montgomery recently met a group of marines. Said he: "Aren't we pretty close to the front lines now, fellows?" Said a marine: "Front lines, hell. They're half a mile behind us. This...