Word: lamarre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Navy, to work for Generalissimo Chiang in Chungking. Sumner Welles's son, Arnold, graduated from the Naval Reserve Officers' training school in The Bronx. Civilian Defense Director Fiorello H. LaGuardia turned down a WPA "national defense project": study of the home life of fish. Hedy Lamarr invented a remote-control device the Government termed secret and "promising." The Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service set Private Mary Churchill to scrubbing steps after Father Winston asked "no favors." Paris papers predicted that General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, ex-Premiers Léon Blum, Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud would...
Forest Behm, a tackle from last year's Nebraska Rose Bowl team, and a student at the Business School, will probably help Henry Lamarr with the Jayvee line, while Frank Swirles, a quarterback at U.C.L.A. last year will probably handle the Yardling backs, and John O'Brien, Notre Dame '41, will whip the Freshman ends into shape...
...escorting when he wasn't with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta Garbo, who started the long-lived longhair fad, had her locks cut to within three inches of their life, dyed them greenish-gold (with an aquamarine rinse), and tucked them into a monkish halo. ∙∙ Hedy Lamarr also had her long mane shortened, but only for private showing. ∙∙ Baby-faced Simone Simon joined the rush for U.S. citizenship, applied for her first papers...
...during World War I. He has also been a stable boy, peanut salesman, barker and roustabout for Snapp Brothers' Circus, paid promoter of theatricals on Long Island and in Yellowstone Park. As a Hollywood press agent he plugged Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, George Arliss, Lupe Velez, Hedy Lamarr. During the past decade he press-agented more than 50 night clubs, in 1936 opened his own La Conga in Hollywood, followed it with several Beachcombers (in Manhattan, Providence, Boston, Miami Beach) and Manhattan's Copacabana. In these resorts he has featured tropic atmosphere and a tall, affirmative rum drink...
...hard to be. On the other hand, it has some touches of humor and acting that save it from being the slow wash-out that so many Hollywood comedies have been in recent months. The plot concerns the trails and tribulations of James Stewart, an impecunious writer, and Hedy Lamarr, a refugee without citizenship papers, when the latter requests the former to marry her to save her from deportation. This situation is complicated by the fact that Ian Hunter wants to marry Miss Lamarr but is unable to because of all things, he is already married...