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...Artie Angeleno" is green-eyed Jack (short for Jacquin Leonard) Lait Jr., 3 7 -year-old son of the New York Mirror's editor. A onetime screen writer and free lancer, he went to New York last summer to help his dad do vacation relief for Walter Winchell. He was a night-shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own. His assignment: to treat real society in cafe-society style. Lait's maiden column, sent to the Chief on approval, came...
Died. Major Francis Yeats-Brown, 58, handsome professional soldier-author (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Lancer at Large), distinguished poloist and pigsticker (hunter of wild boars), practitioner of Yoga; in London...
...writing the last chapters of a mystery novel for the Saturday Evening Post. He was a respected, reasonably successful author. He had his summer home, and a winter apartment on Manhattan's Morningside Heights, a wide circle of literary and bridge-playing friends. He also had the free lancer's occupational psychosis: worry over when the well would...
Friends say he passed up a $100,000-a-year offer from a New York law firm to accept Franklin Roosevelt's $12,500 court appointment. Washington's thinning band of original New Dealers, in which Thurman Arnold was a whimsical free lancer, shuddered to think of him in a black gown. Philosophized Arnold: "I guess I'm like the Marx brothers-they can be awfully funny for a long while, but finally people get tired of them. A lot of the bureaucrats are not only tired of me but also awfully sore...
...Wells picture The Man Who Could Work Miracles as a nude god riding across the Milky Way. The shooting was done outdoors, at night, in midwinter. So he went to warmer Hollywood, where he made his debut menacing Tyrone Power and the British Empire in Lloyds of London. Lancer Spy was supposed to make a "supernova" of Sanders. "A super-nova," 20th Century-Fox explained, "is what astronomers call a big star which appears suddenly and shines with great brilliance." Instead, Sanders became one of the best scene stealers in the business and one of Hollywood's more sinister...