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...assigned its Washington Bureau Chief Paul Miller, who played the story solemnly: "The Globester took off for Tripoli at 12:30 a.m." Funnyman Fred Othman was only slightly funny for the U.P.: "Hand me down my white burnoose, light the incense and call the dancing girls." I.N.S. sent Inez Robb, Hearst's glib, grey go-girl, who had to admit there wasn't much to write about: "We are well on the way to establishing the alltime record of circumnavigating the globe without seeing anything...
...Flannels & Black Type. They labored mightily to make magic out of what had become commonplace: the Azores one day, Cairo the next. By the time she reached San Francisco, Inez Robb was air-dizzy from high-flown metaphors. Wrote she: "The world is shrinking like a pair of red flannels in a spring rain." The travelers got back to Washington in six days, six hours, having taken twice as long as globe-girdling Howard Hughes did in 1938, because they went a much longer...
...straining Hearst press gave its reporter a daily headline play (INEZ ROBB PLANE FORCED DOWN), but editors generally lost interest in the flight before it got past Africa. Said Washington Post Publisher Eugene Meyer: "It's nothing like Nellie...
...connoisseurs of human frailty, San Francisco's cops were not surprised to find that morals deteriorate in wartime. Last week they found another instance. In a raid on a house run by one Inez Burns they found three operating rooms equipped for abortions, and plenty of evidence that the establishment plied a rushing business. The day after they raided the place, 15 women telephoned for appointments. A little later they discovered an even more startling item-a cache of $285,000 which Inez Burns had accumulated since...
Divorced. Leland Stanford ("Larry'') MacPhail, 55, baseball's bleacher-lunged showman, now boss of the New York Yankees ; by Inez Thompson MacPhail, 55; after 34 years of marriage, five of separation...