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...quiet days of yore, before this world-shaking conflagration wrought havoc with the status quo, a date with a college girl was an event--an event that often rent the soul and spirit of a man College girls used to cost money...
Died. Carl A. Cover, 51, lean, weather-beaten, super-efficient Bell Aircraft Corp. vice president, onetime crack test pilot of nearly all Douglas aircraft (e.g., DC-3 transport, A20 attack "Havoc" bomber, etc.); and Max Stupar, 59, Austrian-born industrial-aviation planner; in an airplane crash, while flying a twin-engined cargo plane from Marietta, Ga. to Buffalo, N.Y.; near Wright Field, Dayton...
...show's biggest asset is June Havoc's Sadie. In a role that has been played, on stage & screen, by Jeanne Eagels, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford and others, the frisky comedienne (late of Mexican Hayride) does not always measure up. But she lifts the part above its surroundings, is always engaging as June Havoc...
...What About the Ministry?" When he returned to the U.S., a cousin recalls, he was "a wonderful specimen of stalwart youth, tall, broad-shouldered, fair-haired, blue-eyed, with an irresistible capacity for laughter. ... Of course a young man like that landing in the midst of Boston society played havoc with the fair sex. They fell before him like ninepins." Handsome Cotty entered Lee, Higginson & Co., brokers, as a runner and clerk. Life among the trust funds soon bored him. He visited the famed, silver-tongued rector of Boston's fashionable Trinity Episcopal Church, Phillips Brooks. Their conversation...
Ethel Merman, bouncy, bugle-voiced musicomedienne, cast in the title role of Sadie Thompson, a musical version of Broadway's 1922 smash hit Rain, left the show three weeks before its Philadelphia opening because she did not like the lyrics, was replaced by bright and brassy Musicomedienne June Havoc...