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...Soviet official is Supreme Court Judge Karl Lintin. The Soviet Loeb-Leopold pair, instead of murdering a Communist Bobbie Franks, were responsible for the death of Mrs. Lintin. Her son, a "mama's darling" of 16, is described as having always worn silk shirts and having his bed linen changed daily...
Robert Taylor lives in a small Beverly Hills house, keeps a Ford coupe for going to work and a Packard convertible for pleasure, has a valet. He wears berets, blue and white checked bathrobes, blue linen beach suits. Last summer, his association with Barbara Stanwyck was the most publicized Hollywood romance of the year outside of Mary Astor's. Currently, the Stanwyck-Taylor partnership, one of the conventions of which was that each gave the other an expensive present every week, is thought to be cooling. Last week, Robert Taylor announced he would travel to Washington with Jean Harlow...
...would have been proclaimed as the defender of academic freedom. Instead he has allowed himself, perhaps unjustly, to be branded as a politician glad to see one of his enemies "embarrassed," even if in the process his state university is subjected to the indignity of washing its dirty linen in public. New York Herald-Tribune
Excavating tombs in Egypt 17 years ago, diggers of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art found the mummy, swathed in heavy wrappings of linen, of a young man of Thebes named Wah. Wearing a gilded and painted mask, a red linen shawl, the mummy of Wah made a bright and cheerful appearance in its clean, neat bandages. The diggers took it back to the museum where it was placed on exhibition...
...Matthews' enterprising pressagent, Tom Barrows, declares that Actor Matthews sends his starched linen to Baikie & Hogg, Ruchill, Glasgow; his unstarched laundry to Prospect Cottage, Bushy Heath, England; adds that Mr. Matthews "used to use the American Banker, a ten-day boat, but now uses the Queen Mary because he has only two shirts...