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Married. Stan Laurel, 43, hair-scratch-ing, empty-headed film funnyman, partner of fat Oliver Hardy; to Vera Ivanova Shuvalova, 28, a Russian singer; day after his divorce; in Yuma, Ariz...
...Last month the Herald's 1937 international survey found Shirley still top favorite. Other leaders, in order: Clark Gable, William Powell and Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper, Gracie Fields, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers and George Formby (English comedian), Jane Withers, Jeanette MacDonald, Sonja Henie, Myrna Loy and Laurel & Hardy...
...concert all eyes were upon his rugged figure as he sat, with his small, dapper wife, between the President and the Field Marshal. Though urged, he declined to make a speech. Even when Finland's Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel wreath symbolic of an entire nation's debt, he remained firmly and shyly silent. It was only later, at a banquet given by intimate friends, that he tried to express his gratitude. As he stood up, however, emotion overcame him. Dumbly, the fierce-faced old man clasped his wife...
...these former champions have ever seemed peculiarly ingrained in the affections of the American people but Senator Vandenburg is a man of different caliber and definitely the most quietly impressive figure in the "grand old party." That he will wear upon his sage and untroubled brow the republican laurel in the next election, is a fairly universal opinion...
...made much stir until last winter when the company prepared to sell $1,350,000 worth of common stock. Financial writers then discovered Marcellus Joslyn's old labor policy, adopted during the post-War period of strikes and labor migrations, and Father Coughlin presented him with an oratorical laurel wreath. Scholarly President Joslyn-who is 64, and often mistaken for a doctor because of his black goatee and spectacles, and who still goes to the office every day except Wednesday, when he stays home to read to his wife while she knits-enjoys a great deal of pride...