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...room some more primatologists had entered, and my party joined them. I didn't, because I wanted to see more of the baby chimps in their nursery. After a bit I started back toward the Teletype and paused for a last glimpse of Lana, who seemed to be amusing herself watching slides. If her eyes slewed to the side to take me in, and I think they must have, I didn't notice. All I saw was that Lana had begun some rather strange behavior, shifting from one foot to the other. It should have warned...
David journeys to Paris, becomes a chef, then enjoys a brief career as door-to-door salesman before pushing on to America. In the New World he goes to Hollywood to survey the box-office appeal of leading stars. He boosts the career of Lana Turner; others are branded "Box Office Poison" and quickly fade from the screen. War breaks out, and David serves England as aide to Spymaster William Stephenson...
...accommodations with the rest of the world. A growing self-confidence has somewhat softened the Soviet truculence. Such factors may be the best hope for getting the Soviets to take up their pens and bestow their signatures at least on SALT'S limited contracts of nuclear forbearance. ∙Lana Morrow...
Plans for a rail mass-transit system for Los Angeles have had about as much success with local voters as middle-aged housewives have had at the drug counter where Lana Turner was discovered some years ago. In 1968 and again in 1974 the electorate voted down such plans and decided to continue its love affair with the automobile. Nonetheless, a third and more grandiose plan will be tacked onto the June 8 presidential primary ballot in Los Angeles County. It calls for 232 miles of track-almost exactly the same as the New York subway system-to be built...
More publicized were Hughes' relationships in the 1930s and '40s with well-known stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino. Rogers, who claimed he proposed to her, dumped him when she caught him cheating with another woman. Gardner beaned him with a bronze statue at her home after he cuffed her around for seeing another...