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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dream. Behind the walls of Aly's green and white seaside villa, "L'Horizon," Aly and Rita prepared for the day. "I'm so excited," Rita said in one of her rare statements, "I can hardly think. I'm sort of lost in a dream world. When someone asks me a question, I bring myself to and grunt." The word got out that Aly Khan had given her a swell diamond ring, an emerald-cut job. Bar-side reports had it that it was 32 karats-"As big as a belt buckle." (It turned...
British Novelist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) told the American Academy of Arts and Letters that in pessimistic moments he thought that "man's best chance for harmony lies in apathy, uninventiveness and inertia . . . Universal exhaustion would certainly be a new experience. The human race has never undergone it, and it is still too perky to admit that it ... might result in a sprouting of new growth through decay...
...m just making this up as I go along...
Stern's annual income of around $150,-ooo comes largely from his Colgate stipend of $2,500 weekly and his salary as sports director of NBC. It is pieced out by his M-G-M newsreel work, magazine articles and sports shorts for Columbia Pictures. But he feels that the era of great announcers is at an end. "We used to be the public's eyes; now television is," said Stern. "The TV audience just wants a few words from us ... I'm going to try hard to fit into TV, but I'm sure...
Died. James Monroe Smith, 60, onetime $18,000-a-year president of Louisiana State University, whose resignation in 1939 disclosed widespread corruption and graft in the Huey P. Long political machine; after a heart attack; in Angola, La. Plucked from obscurity by Huey ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.") Long to head his pet college, Smith helped his mentor (and Huey's political heir, ex-Gov. Richard Webster Leche) spend some $13,500,000 "improving" the university. was indicted on 40 counts, served six years (plus ten months for mail fraud). He ended in obscurity as director...