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Love's Labor. Private Marvin Rubin took $7 worth of nickels into a Brooklyn phone booth, started calling his girl friend at 11 a.m., called her every five minutes for eleven hours, won her promise after spending $6.60 and losing 5 Ib...
Born. To Cinemactress Rosalind Rus sell, 34, and Army Captain Fred Brisson, 30, peacetime actors' agent: their first child, a boy ; in Hollywood. Weight : 8½ Ib...
Weight : 6 Ib...
...January 1942, President Roosevelt ordered two squadrons of the 7th Heavy Bombardment Group to Mac-Arthur's relief, via the South Atlantic, Africa and India. To a friend one of the pilots of a 7th Group Liberator wrote: "The total weight of my plane was over 60,000 Ib. [standard maximum, 56,000]. I believe that was the first time an air unit ever moved with all its equipment in its air echelon alone" (i.e., with enough equipment aboard to begin fighting...
...snake her way through a radiobroadcast love scene, Theda Bara, 52, siren of the early silents, emerged from 20-odd years of retirement. Her victim was goggle-eyed Groucho Marx. The studio audience found the famed vamp about 30 Ib. heavier than in her salad days, but still trim in the legs, hypnotic in the eyes. They also found her afflicted with stage fright. The ex-siren told reporters she did the stunt as a favor to friends, had no idea of trying a comeback, then returned to the curio-cluttered mansion where she has long been one of Hollywood...