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From then on Oliver Morosco was one of the nation's most spectacular showmen. From a succession of Broadway hits including The Bat and Peg o' My Heart (with a glamorous new star, Laurette Tay lor) he made more than $5,000,000. But an 18-year-long plagiarism suit over The Bird of Paradise dogged most of his career, and in 1923 he was neck deep (though later cleared) in a $2½ million stock swindle involving his vast theater holdings. About that time, his shrewd judgment of box-office began to fail him. After passing...
Welcome Committee. The lieutenant was, in fact, a guest of the Army. The most elaborate machinery ever devised lor refitting fighting men had begun to roll, and he was among the first to go through it. Developed by the Army Air Forces, the new program is called, in typically tongue-twisting Army language, the A.A.F. Redistribution Center. Two "stations," at Miami Beach and Atlantic City, are in operation. Others are planned for the Midwest and the West Coast...
Born. To Ben Hecht, 49, ace movie scribe, playwright (The Front Page), and Rose Cay lor Hecht, 45, onetime dramatist, his second wife: their first child, his second daughter, Jenny; in Manhattan. Weight...
...Department, which has been feuding quietly with Treasury over alien property. Justice's representative on the frozen funds committee is Leo Crowley; and the President has begged Crowley to take over the whole job (though he never got around to giving him an executive order). White-haired Bache lor Crowley is a busy man: he is not only Chairman of FDIC, but of huge Standard Gas & Electric, and a director or officer of eight or ten other firms. Nonetheless, he told the President he would be Alien Property Custodian too provided it were set up as an independent agency...
...Joseph Stalin the Communist, a twinging admiration for Joseph Stalin the Soldier. After war came to the U.S., all U.S. citizens, including Catholic priests and bishops, had to revalue their feelings about Communist Joe Stalin, who might prove extraordinarily useful in helping the U.S. to pay off the Japanese lor their attack...