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...hair was already greying when he put on a Los Angeles concert in 1933. The audience demanded 18 encores, and among the enthusiasts was M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer. Three Hollywood studios offered Eddy screen tests. M.G.M. won him, tinted his hair, and put him into Naughty Marietta in 1935, with Jeanette MacDonald. At the picture's preview, Director W. S. Van Dyke turned from the raving audience to Eddy and asked: "Well, how does it feel to be a great actor?" "But I'm not an actor," Eddy protested. "I know that," said Van Dyke...
...industrial noise is harder on the nerves than the brain-battering din of riveting. In one department of Bell Aircraft Corp.'s huge B-29 plant near Marietta, Ga., dominated by the monstrous chatter of some 450 riveters, conversation has been by lipreading. The uproar has undoubtedly played a big part in the heavy turnover and absenteeism among the riveters, half of whom are women...
Recently the Army Air Forces released to Bell 450 new ear plugs that reduce the racket but let the human voice through when the riveting stops. Last week the new chief of the Bell plant, Colonel Carl Cover (rhymes with Dover), found that their use at Marietta had brought about a marked reduction in nerve strain and fatigue. What noise does come through the plug sounds like the dull beating of a heavy surf...
...Vincennes, Ind., Mrs. Lyndon Eberly and her daughter, Helen, heard on the radio that Sergeant Richard Eberly, 21, had been one of the first to be landed by air in France. The Eberlys prayed. At 3:30 a.m. in Marietta, Ga., the bell of the Methodist Church began to peal; by 4, every church was lighted, and in every church the people prayed...
...MARIETTA MILLER...