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...Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life, probably the most sickeningly sentimental show on the air, lately turned to ordinary people as subjects for its weekly, treacly "true-to-life" biographies. During the Mother's Day season last May, the program presented a portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Hahn a Queens housewife and mother, devoted to her husband and so dedicated to her children that she had worked as a chambermaid, waitress and cook to further their education and keep them off the streets...
...for1 split, boosted the quarter common-stock dividend from 65? to 70?. At the annual meeting, American Tobacco Co. stockholders approved a 2-for-1 split, with a planned quarterly dividend increase of 7½? per share, to 57½? on the new shares. Company President Paul M. Hahn told shareholders that sales and earnings in the first quarter this year would exceed the first quarter last year, when American Tobacco earned $1.85 per share on sales...
...homosexual affairs of Proust that Author Painter chronicles were with Reynaldo Hahn. a talented pianist and composer, and Lucien Daudet. foppish son of the famed novelist Alphonse. From each, Proust tried to extract the unconditional love his mother had given him as a child; in each he was disillusioned. But it was the Dreyfus affair that deglamorized high society for Proust. Jewish on his mother's side, he courageously declared himself a Dreyfusard and helped to circulate the first petition for Dreyfus' release. Ironically, when Dreyfus was finally released, Proust found him as unappealing an ex-martyr...
...poker hands. Around the table in the Chungking Hostel, he recalls, there were such worldly adversaries as Herr Neilson, the Generalissimo's antiaircraft adviser, "a good-natured writer from TIME Magazine" named Teddy White, and Mickey, a plump, cigar-smoking woman who turned out to be Writer Emily Hahn, in China to do the history of the three Soong sisters. The place was full of poker patsies, and Yardley put to profitable use the carefully calculated rules that make his book a primer for all serious players. A sampling...
RICHARD H. HAHN, Adams; PBH; Navy ROTC; House Committee; House Christmas Party; HYDC...