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...that she will be a wow. Almost since the day when, at 14, she came out of Allendale, N. J. and into the public eye as a Powers model, her career has been steered by an indulgent, avuncular "board of directors": John Robert Powers, Columnist Walter Winchell, Publicist Steve Hannagan, Cinemogul Robert Goldstein, Singer Morton Downey. "They're wonderful," she says. "I couldn't move without their advice." The board thinks she's rather wonderful, too. Says Powers: ". . .A modern version of Lady Hamilton and Pompadour. I couldn't be prouder...
Stubby, moon-faced Stephen Jerome Hannagan made his start by shouting the praises of Billy McCarney's troupe of barnstorming auto racers. His big chance came, 20 years ago, when Promoter Carl Graham Fisher put him in charge of Miami Beach's publicity. Hannagan set up a news bureau, sent northward a steady flow of good copy - about 25% society notes on what the home folks were doing down South, the other 75% pictures of pretty girls in bathing suits. Miami Beach prospered, and Steve Hannagan got a lot of the credit...
...were charged as much as $40 a day for hotel rooms. Many wives could not afford to be with their servicemen husbands. War-wealthy civilians, who came for the races and were openly annoyed by the presence of soldiers, battened on the nation's blackest black market. Pressagent Hannagan had his work cut out for him; Miami Beach's face needed a thorough scrubbing...
...Florida boom was so big that Press-agent Steve Hannagan no longer has to work at his job of puffing Miami Beach. The Army Air Forces flyers, transferred to Miami by Hap Arnold for rest and relaxation after battle experience, were paying as much as $40 a day for small hotel rooms, $3 to $4 for meals. This hurt: many service wives could not afford to stay near their husbands. Even old Floridians, used to the routine annual outrage, thought things had gone too far. Many a furloughing airmaa was returning to his bomber station dead broke. Some servicemen stationed...
...Sorensen is still a director, still vice president in charge of production. Sorensen has had the only production seat on the board. Now he must share that chair with Rausch, close friend of Bennett. After the first board meeting came the first short but significant straw. Razzle-dazzler Steve Hannagan, whose hiring as press agent a year ago was approved by Sorensen, but never by Bennett, was fired forthwith...