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...muttered threats, once threw acid at her, tried to get into her hotel room. Cracked Liberal Lawyer Louis F. McCabe, who is carrying the cinema ban to the State Supreme Court: "A woman as charming as Mrs. Palmer might be annoyed by mashers at any time. Possibly she mistook their motives...
...spear as the missile, and paddled about the surface. Where he was swimming, the water was clear and the reefs inhabited by fish such as you see in Nassau through a glass bottom boat. The trick is to shoot the spear when you espy a large game. Unhappily, he mistook his right foot for an unfamiliar species the first time he shot, and he was reluctant to try again...
Muni is dreamy, sensitive, unpractical. When he bought a ranch in San Fernando Valley he mistook the irrigation stand-pipes for flower pots and planted geraniums in them. When the water was turned on, the geraniums flew into the air. He sold the ranch last spring for a hilltop home in Palos Verde, where he swims in his pool, plays with his dog and looks through a telescope at ships on the Pacific. He is never seen in Hollywood nightspots and takes no part in actors' disputes. He attended the mass meeting of the Screen Actors Guild last...
...younger brother Elmer. Closest thing in the U. S. to an efficient cornhusking machine are Carl, Elmer and two other Carlson brothers, who will be favorites in future cornhusking championships. Hauled onto a platform last week to get his $100 prize money, Carl Carlson was so excited that he mistook the loudspeaker microphone for a radio outlet. Said he to the 160,000 spectators at Oyler's farm: "Hello everybody back there in Audubon County, I'm glad I could win. ... I was going pretty strong and believe I could have even given my brother Elmer a good...
...courts to the newspapers. It moved from San Francisco to New York and on to Europe. It came to dominate the game of tennis as the rivalry between Mary of Scotland and Elizabeth of England once dominated British politics. Because, to the protagonists, it was no less serious, reporters mistook it for a mere personal feud, based on the fact that the Willses were more socialite than the Jacobses...