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Last week angry Nazis joined the French police in hunting the wreath layer, described as "one of the most active De Gaullist agents" in Caen. Nazi-controlled Paris-soir said he was an Englishman, Jean Hopper, whose mother, wife and daughter are in a concentration camp...
This week Los Angeles Timesman William Mellors Henry, a journalistic institution in Southern California, took over a thrice-weekly Sunkist Orange program as substitute for gaudy, gossipy Hedda Hopper, now on vacation. Sobersided, hearth-loving Substitute Henry did not babble of cinema doings as had Miss Hopper. He prepared his newfangled columnar script by chatting long-distance with heterogeneous folk all over the world, setting down their impressions on matters frivolous and cosmic...
...Lisbon, Ambassador Grew in Japan, a Mrs. Murphy stymied in Agua Caliente, Mexico, because she could not show she was a U.S. citizen. For a single broadcast Bill Henry's telephone bill runs to about $100. Although he has no plans for continuing the program when Hedda Hopper returns next month, radioracles are betting he will have a sponsor before he finishes his stint. Luck is Bill Henry's long suit...
Cowardice. Now came a price-control billj completely rewritten six times, amended countless times, mauled and slashed in last minute conferences between Congressional leaders and Price Boss Leon Henderson. By the time the miserable compromise dropped into the legislative hopper, its only teeth were false. No one apparently realized the basic fact that inflation is an overall thing, uncontrollable in bits & pieces. The bill authorized the President to establish maximum prices for any commodities on the basis of prevailing prices of July 29, adjustable according to other factors (speculative fluctuations, general cost increases, etc.). All prices thus established are finally...
They surrounded themselves with some of the greatest names of the stage, among them, Lillian Russell, DeWolf Hopper and David Warfield. For every serious success other producers had, Weber & Fields turned out a broad and successful burlesque. They matched Du Barry with Du Hurry, Quo Vadis with Whoa Vass Iss?, Cyrano de Bergerac with Cyranose. Whatever the title, Weber & Fields remained the same. Lew Fields tried to explain, Joe Weber couldn't understand. Joe Weber disgraced himself, Lew Fields hit him over the head...