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...hundreds of stars were there, in jewels and furs and brand-new hats. And, as Announcer von Zell steered them to the microphone, they spoke their ten-second piece-Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Edward Arnold, Walt Disney, Eddie Bracken, Gene Tierney, Frances Dee, Joel McCrea, Ruth Hussey...
...historical information, is Van Wyck Brooks's book constructed. Its individual word-portraits-of Alexander Wilson, the dour ornithologist and bird-painter, of Davy Crockett, teller of tall backwoods tales, who thought they made a book "jump out of the press like a new dollar from a mint-hopper," of Fenimore Cooper, whose father gave him 23 farms in New York State when the future novelist was expelled from Yale-are equal to Brooks's best...
...JOAN HOPPER Chandler's Ford, Hants., England...
...Hollywood's Hedda Hopper (Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate): "I've seen more good-looking men in two days in Chicago than I'd look at in a week's ramble around the film lots. Republicans? Well, yes, and no, I suppose...
...bill contained just 83 words, one of the shortest ever to be dropped into the House hopper. It said simply that the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts, as amended, shall not be construed to "apply to the business of insurance." Thus, just 17 days after the U.S. Supreme Court broke a 75-year-old precedent in holding that insurance is subject to the antitrust laws (TIME, June 12), the House moved last week to nullify the ruling...