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Atlantic City hotelmen complained that Hollywood too often pictured their resort as a week-end hideaway for the boss and his secretary, asked that the movies indicate that at least some men go there with their wives. The casual remark of a popular star - "They say white bread is not good for you" - brought thousands of angry letters from millers, bakers, wheat farmers. The Hays Office keeps a weather eye out for such unwitting antagonizers, warns producers to avoid them wherever possible...
...eleven U.S. missionaries were getting ready for Christmas when the Japs found them. For two years, in a hideaway called "Hopevale," high in the beautiful hills of Panay Island, they had hidden successfully with about 100 other Americans and Filipinos...
...harrowing tale of hare & hounds. Never for a moment did the Japs relax their hunt for him and the five other U.S. servicemen who chose to hide on the 225 sq. mi. island rather than surrender with the rest on Dec. 10, 1941. Time after time Tweed abandoned a hideaway only minutes before a Jap hunting party arrived...
Shut Up. Bernard Haggin, an angular musical zealot who looks a decade younger than his 44 years, has been a New Yorker from his lower East Side boyhood, through the College of the City of New York, to his present upper West Side hideaway. There he keeps a super-phonograph, whose sensitive entrails are always getting out of whack, and a Mason & Hamlin, which he has been known to play for bosom friends. On paper he has no facility whatever, but by main strength has made himself a writer of exceptional pith and clarity (Music On Records, A Book...
Some of the younger justices were more active. Hugo La Fayette Black, 58, met his sons (Lieut. Sterling and Corporal Hugo L. Jr.) at Miami Beach, sharpened up his tennis in matches with Donald Budge's brother Lloyd. William Orville Douglas, 45, went, as usual, to his hideaway Lostine River ranch in northeast Washington, climbed mountains and hooked trout. Stanley Reed, 59, whacked repainted golf balls for exercise; Wiley Rutledge, 50, camped out in the White River country of western Colorado. Bob Jackson, 52, rode horseback at his McLean, Va. estate; Frank Murphy, 54, lolled on a Michigan beach...