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...stocky, with dark wavy hair, heavy eyebrows, Clark Gable ears and a hairline mustache, is dapper, earnest, no isolationist. Like the late Brigham Young, he loves to dance.* He observes the Word of Wisdom (no tobacco, tea, coffee or strong drink), chews hundreds of sticks of gum annually; as a bishop he marries, buries, and manages church affairs without remuneration. High-school educated, the son of pioneer ranchers, he entered politics four years ago as a Young Democrat, topped the ticket in 1938 in a race for the Legislature, became Speaker of the Assembly in 1939, was re-elected...
...colors in Gone With the Wind were admiring the first Technicolor job by the perfectionist of the cinematographers, tall, blond, rosy-cheeked Ernest Haller. At 44, Ernie Haller has 17 years' experience and 80 pictures behind him but still frets and fumes over details with a wad of gum in his mouth, always complains about his results. Now earning $800 a week at Warner Brothers, Haller's single Technicolor experience with G. W. T. W. has won him recognition as the dean of the field. Like most photographers, Haller's hobby is photography...
...field auxiliaries, FCC pounced easily upon illicit transmitters, inspected ship and police radios, supervised the activities of the nation's hams. But since last June, when the President authorized a $1,600,000 fund for radio's defense efforts, aerial gumshoeing put on seven-megacycle gum boots, established a special National Defense Operations Section to supplement FCC's routine monitoring work. Now under construction are four new primary monitoring stations in Texas, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico. Ready to swing into action is a network of 72 secondary stations. Required personnel for the monitoring...
...notchers, put its cards on sale. Prices: 5? to 25?. Artists Harry Wickey, Rockwell Kent and Adolf Dehn began the Christmas card project in 1935. None of the artists made pictures expressly for cards; works were chosen for their reproducibility. But three years ago, as a sop to gum-chewers, the Group added a side line: Christmas cards of conventional kind, designed by professional illustrators. There are now 1,500 cards on the Group list, to which 200 a year are added. The 168 participating artists get 10% royalties, ranging from an average $300-400 to as much...
...well as mentally and physically, Miss Ruutz-Rees made her girls enact their own rules of conduct, mete out their own punishments. Result is strict discipline. For eating candy (only fruit is allowed between meals), a Rosemarian is kept "on bounds" for two weeks. Some other rules: no chewing gum or cigarets (except for sixth formers), no lipstick or nail polish while in uniform, no reading unpermissioned literature or attending unpermissioned movies...