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...started as a party and ended as a brawl, but this Hollywood party was different: the actors behaved, the employes behaved like actors. About 4 a.m. at Errol Flynn's 32nd birthday party, the butler, lent for the occasion by Barbara Mutton, squared off with the actor's secretary and standin, who had once been a butler himself. The Hutton butler, said the Flynn standin, swung first. The Hutton butler, from his hospital bed, said no. The Flynn stand-in said the Hutton butler had called him a name. The Hutton butler remembered little. Flynn stood...
Replacement Crews. This week the Army faced a problem in simple mathematics. Factory output for 1942 and 1943 is expected to reach 185,000 combat aircraft. Even if half of that is lent-leased, the Army and the Navy between them will still have 92,500 combat planes. Army schools will graduate something less than 30,000 pilots this year, must step up their training pace next year. The rub: in the tension of long flights and in the electric strain of combat, pilots tire. Flight surgeons ground them, make them rest. But planes don't get tired. Back...
When war came, with human monsters flying through the air, Britain forgot the monster in the lake. The Italians remembered, though. They lent a touch of color and realism to one of their famed communiqués by announcing that the monster had been bombed and sunk during an Italian raid on Scotland. To this calumny the monster retorted by merrily roiling, once more, the waters of Loch Ness...
...ludicrous. . . . The moving men tell me they are always busy, somebody moves every day in the year, so one would think that it would be something to which people were fairly well accustomed. ... A naval friend . . . sent in a trunk to be housed until he gets settled. Another friend lent Mrs. Roosevelt a car, and all this was headline, front-page news...
Carleton was the first college to establish a biography department, has an excel lent astronomy department (with an observatory on the campus) and a famed department of international relations, for which President Cowling wangled $500,000 from the late Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. Of Carleton's brilliant faculty, five are former college presidents...