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...though the Hollywood girls would have to go it on their own. But last week, by a last-minute compromise, the grave jurisdictional issue was settled. Henceforth, Motion Picture Costumers Local 705 (A.F. of L.) would install only fabric "falsies" for such flat-chested working personnel as Hedy La-Marr, Paulette Goddard, Katherine Hepburn and Betty Button. Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706 (A.F. of L.) would install the rubber ones. Movieland bosoms rose with relief...
After five years in the Government. Donald Marr Nelson resigned this week. In 1940, fresh from the management of Sears, Roebuck & Co., he symbolized the nation's first groping efforts toward war production when he became purchasing agent for the old National Defense Council. He stayed on through SPAB, OPM and WPB, spent his last year of Government service on special presidential missions. Now he was off for a rest, with a pat on the back from President Truman...
...sincere congratulations of the entire company are offered to the retiring officers Neale Gow, Don Adams, Marr Fauria, and especially Bob Brocker for "a job well done." The best tribute to. Bob for his excellent work as recognized by all was his election as Class President yesterday, a position which he can undoubtedly fill just as capably as that of BatCom. Neale's endeavors and potentialities were recognized, too, with his election as Social Committee Chairman, a man of whom we expect much in the next few months...
...award was the forerunner of the Corcoran's 19th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, which opens next fortnight with a show of 219 invited works. The Corcoran Biennial carries four sizable awards. This year's Second Prize, $1,500, went to Malvin Marr Albright who signs his work "Zsissly," to keep from being confused with his twin brother, famed Chicago Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright. Marsh's first-prizewinner raised an occasional eyebrow, lowbrow and highbrow; they lowered to normal at Zsissly-Albright's Deer Isle, Maine, a faithful-to-nature landscape...
...Donald Marr Nelson, U.S. special envoy to China, was back in Washington after a strenuous month's trip around the globe. The ears of the ex-WPBoss still rang with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's encomium: "If it [the Nelson mission] had happened as much as one year ago, I believe the present situation would be far better." To Franklin Roosevelt, Don Nelson brought a heartening report. With the Generalissimo's full cooperation, the Nelson mission had launched at Chungking a Chinese...