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...Dewey train headed north to his native state of Michigan. At his birthplace, he got his biggest ovation so far. Owosso, Mich. (pop. 17,000) drew some 25,000 from Shiawassee County down to Main Street for a Saturday night look at the home-town boy who had made good.*Tom Dewey made a brief, extemporaneous address, then retired to his mother's plain, white-painted home for a Sunday of rest and meditation...
...prospective second father-in-law Frank Morgan gamily swap innuendoes, the audience thrills to the possibility that he is the father of one of cinema's rare bastards, and a farcical one at that. For he is called to Chicago on the day he is to marry a home-town girl, to do his duty by Teresa Wright in a lying-in hospital. As it turns out, he had married Miss Wright a proper interval ago, been confronted with a socialite father-in-law and his star-gazing wife (Patricia Collinge), who disapproved of smoking. With the help...
Lady from Michigan. Mrs. George M. Dewey, 66, an energetic housewife of Owosso, Mich. (pop. 17,000) did not mention 'the fact that the home-town folks used to refer to her only child, Tom, as "that smart Dewey kid." (Father George died in 1927.) Sprightly Widow
Flight Officer Jackie Coogan, back in home-town Hollywood after a tour of combat duty with the Army Air Commandos in India, cashed in on a request by letter for a date: he had fallen for a pin-up picture of eye-filling Starlet Ramsay Ames...
...Enlisted WACs and officers of the Fifteenth Air Force, denied the right to mingle unless engaged, filed 14 applications for betrothal. Told that the announcement would be sent to home-town papers, 13 withdrew application...