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Smoker's Hack. In Knoxville, Tenn., Golden Gibson, 43, reached absentmindedly for a cigarette, stuck a two-inch firecracker in his mouth and lit it, announced from his hospital bed that he had decided to give up smoking...
After her parents' divorce, pretty Angeline and her mother stayed in Pittsburg, where Ethel Crowell (who was also a pretty blonde) taught social science in the high school, and was married and divorced a second time. During the Depression, Mrs. Crowell operated a four-hack taxicab company in Kansas City, and she and her daughter lived in a shabby apartment back of the taxicab office. Angeline was "shy and insecure," according to a cousin, and had one ambition that amounted to an obsession: to go to Hollywood and become a film star...
...unanimous recommendation of the three publishers of her memoirs-namely [New York's] David McKay Co., McCall's Magazine and [London's] Sunday Express-that Mr. Amory's employment was terminated." With Amory's unfinished 300-page manuscript thus brushed aside as "unsatisfactory" hack work, a brand-new ghost was hastily materialized. Starry-eyed with zest for his task, McKay Co.'s Editor Kenneth Rawson exulted: "I have found the duchess filled with desire to tell the truth...
...Your vain attempts in the past to make a first-rate author out of that primitive, Hemingway, were ridiculous . . . Your present attempt to make a first-rate writer out of the third-rate Wouk is another TIME spiel. Still, while he is not in any way nothing except a hack, he is right about the bohemianism of literature...
Brought up from the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs, Ernie hit .275 (including 19 homers) as a rookie last year, batted in 79 runs. Weighing only 170 Ibs., he depends on timing and strong wrist action to lift the ball. Said Cub Manager Stan Hack last week: "That boy's got no nerves. He's a real quiet, modest guy. After he hits a homer, he comes back to the dugout as if he done something wrong...