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...race settled down into a contest of durability on a track foul with exhaust fumes and simmering with bakeoven heat. For all their high-flown names (Springfield Welding Special, Cop-Sil-Loy Brake Special, Grancor-Elgin Piston Pin Special), all but one of the low-slung racers were powered by four-cylinder Meyer-Drake engines...
Five weeks ago, U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson brought Offer No. 6. It was by far the best. Britain offered to drop its legal blockade of Iran's oil, asked in return that an impartial third party be chosen to fix the compensation for Anglo-Iranian. The U.S. added its own bonus: a promise to purchase $130 million worth of Iran's oil, $50 million of the amount to be advanced immediately on account...
Threat to Myrna Loy. Her first films were an undistinguished lot. Hollywood's top leading ladies in the 1930s were sexy types. Ros was valuable as one of the few actresses around with excellent taste in clothes and the figure (stately, but not sexy) to wear them. Usually, she played the girl who didn't get the man ("I was Myrna Loy's threat...
Makki returned recently from Washington, announced that he had "documents" and "proof" of all kinds of dire interference by Acheson and Truman. When able U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson successfully rebutted the charges, Mossadegh forced his Deputy Prime Minister to go before a packed Majlis and admit that he had no proof or documents of any sort. Makki never forgot or forgave this...
Married. Gene Markey, 56, screen writer, producer (The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes); and Mrs. Lucille Wright, 55, owner of the Calumet Farm racing stables; he for the fourth time (Nos. 1, 2, 3: Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr, Myrna Loy), she for the second (she is the widow of Baking Powder Magnate Warren Wright); in Manhattan...