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Cinemactor Lew (Dr. Kildare) Ayres, who scored his first screen hit in the anti-war All Quiet On the Western Front, was sent to an undisclosed camp in the West as a conscientious objector. Of the 33-year-old ex-husband of Ginger Rogers the chairman of his draft board said: "We finally came to the conclusion that his objections to Army service were sincere. That's about all there is to say about the matter...
...There was some split second tunesmithing. In Hollywood, a few hours after the news from Pearl Harbor, Composer Lew Pollack and Lyricist Ned Washington produced a number which Comedian Bert Wheeler sang that night at Ciro's: Oh, we didn't want to do it, but they're asking for it now. So we'll knock the Japs right into the laps of the Nazis. . . . They'll hear the beat of a million feet of people who'd rather fight than eat, And here we come, here we come. I'd hate...
Only man on both last year's and this year's team is Sam May, "Rock of Gibralter" guard from the Gold Coast. Dick Loomis, who was an all-House center on the Winthrop team last year, was barely nosed out for the first choice by Lew Sandler of Kirkland. It was pretty much of a toss-up between the two players. Another position decided after much debate was the right guard slot, where "Buck" Lasser, Deacon Sophomore, was edged by his team-mate, Tom Garvey, who is a Senior...
Mutual Life's Lew Douglas set the pace a month ago, when he deplored the fact that his company (along with two others) had outbid the bankers on a $90,000,000 A.T. & T. issue (TIME, Oct. 6). "The trend toward concentrated investment holdings is of doubtful economic and social good," said he. Another reason: if the insurance companies ever have to unload, it will be nice to have some solvent investment bankers around to help the distribution...
...Elpha Anita Ellington, produced on Mutual's Command Performance series. From Lew Wallace via Hollywood, with inspirational dialogue...