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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veteran Cinemactor Charles Boyer, now breaking in on Broadway in Red Gloves, was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor, for founding in Los Angeles a nonprofit cultural institution dedicated to French-American friendship...
Obviously the real question was the right of an employer to kick out anyone who is a Communist, acts like one, or refuses to say whether he is or isn't one. But when Cole's suit came before a federal jury in Los Angeles last month, the trial turned into nothing more than a legal test of MGM's morals clause. Judge Leon R. Yankwich, charged MGM, had made a cocktail-party observation that all of the accused should be rehired. Judge Yankwich denied it, refused to disqualify himself. In the trial he made it clear...
Only two National League teams (the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins) and one All-America club (the San Francisco 49ers) seemed likely to show a profit. The Chicago Rockets of the All-America Conference would lose more than $300,000, the Los Angeles Rams of the National League about $200,000. Complained Owner Alexis Thompson of the Philadelphia Eagles: "[It's a] fantastic situation that finds me with a championship team that will lose close to $32,000 this year...
...T.W.A. said that it would soon start an inexpensive "skycoach" service between Kansas City and Los Angeles, if CAB approves. The one-way fare would be $59.50, one-third less than the present air fare and well under the Pullman cost ($77.30). Capital Airlines, which started a New York-Chicago "coach" service in November, has had to add extra flights to satisfy the demand...
...Male Animal. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Nora M. Wolven asked for an annulment, complained that her husband Charles had married her just to get an apartment. In Minneapolis, Mrs. Vivian Holweger divorced her husband Ernest, charging that he had married her to win two quarts of whiskey...