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...wife. They were separated not by his original suit (desertion) but under her cross complaint (cruelty and desertion). With a lawyer and a brother for legal and emotional support, Betsey trekked from Manhattan to Los Angeles to see her suit through. On her arrival she sat down in her mink coat and broad-brimmed spring hat and managed a wry smile for photographers. Next day, as she appeared in court in the same outfit, she was almost gay. She testified that Jimmy had asked her for a divorce as long ago as May 1938. She refused, but at his request...
...weekly broadcasts in Radio City's scientifically sound-deadened Studio 8-H pushes an audience of dowagers, politicians and musical who's who that tops the Metropolitan's opening nighters for mink and boiled shirts. Toscaniniacs come from far & wide. From Indianapolis...
...audience, among the mink-coated sponsors, there were still some stormy echoes. President Mrs. Royden Keith, who had got Solomon his job, had resigned ("like a bolt from the blue," cooed her co-directors. "Perhaps she felt that the Board was not in sympathy with her policies"). So ex-President Keith had to sit downstairs in an ordinary orchestra seat, while platinum-blonde Acting-President Mrs. James George Shakman (whose Pabst Brewery money helps feed the orchestra's kitty) basked in a box. Beamed she: "We are all working in perfect harmony. . . . The girls are such fine musicians, they...
...small, tasty shrimps of southeastern Alaska, the herring and shellfish industries are underdeveloped. Yukon mink bring the highest world prices, but could have production expanded 100 times without sinking the world price. Petroleum resources have not even been tapped...
Last week he was getting more encouragement. Two midwest institutions (University of Wisconsin, Kansas State College of Agriculture) are checking the News experiments. In Tennessee tests have started on a herd of prize county-owned cattle. Raisers of horses, rabbits, mink, foxes, guinea pigs, hogs have asked for directions...