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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them concerns C. H. Miiller, a TIME subscriber in Caracas, Venezuela, who asked us for help on an urgent transportation problem. "I am in a fix," Mr. Müller wrote. "My wife (with our 16-month-old child) wants to visit her aging parents at Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores. My wife's parents are old and sick, and she wants to see them as soon as possible. Would you be kind enough to find out a way for her to travel by air from Venezuela to the Azores...
Like her brother, L. M. Giannini,* the bank's president, Claire Giannini grew up in the shadow of fiery old A.P., who thought of little else except his business. As a child she traveled extensively with him, soaked up politics and economics. She attended Oakland's Mills College for two years, then became A.P.'s private secretary...
...husband's business; she has spent much of her quiet life riding, playing golf (in the 90s) and helping the Y.W.C.A. Said brother L.M.: "She's a good businesswoman ... a hardheaded person, and she ought to be good on the board." Said Claire: "I'm terrified...
...subject. The sounding board: LIFE'S Round Table on Hollywood. For 2½ days at San Bernardino, Calif., some 100,000 words flew around the table between scholars, actors, technicians, a critic, a moviegoer, and some of the best U.S. moviemaking talent: 20th Century-Fox's Mankiewicz, M-G-M Production Chief Dore Senary, Warner's Jerry Wald, Independents John Huston, Hal B. Wallis and Robert Rossen...
Neptune's Daughter (M-G-M), starring Esther Williams, is a musical that is brilliantly Technicolored, lavishly staged and gowned, blatantly expensive and extravagantly dull. Esther Williams is widely publicized as an amphibian attraction,* and her special gifts are apparent when she is photographed in a swim suit or in a pool. But most of this film's action takes place in street dress, well away from the water. As a result, large chunks of it seem somewhat pointless...