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...Neill had no reason to worry about money. His plays had netted him some $2,000,000; he could hope for a steadier income only if he had also written the Bible and a cookbook. His third marriage, with lovely Actress Carlotta Monterey, who had played opposite Louis Wolheim in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape (see cut), was an eminently happy one. After an all but mythically swift rise to fame, with 37 plays, he was still relatively young. In experience, he was a brilliant, confident professional, at the height of his hopes and powers...
...months since V-J day the uniformed groom had all but vanished, taking with him a dress sword made gooey by wedding-cake icing. But thousands of other props which had been abandoned during the war were back again. From Westchester County to the Monterey Peninsula, from Philadelphia's Main Line to Miami's palm-bordered mansions, society weddings were being planned, costumed and produced as ponderously as musical comedies...
Greer Garson, perched on a rock for some moviemaking, was knocked off her perch by an outsize wave and carried 30 feet out into Monterey Bay. Promptly Vincent Sallecito, a sardine fisherman acting as an extra, waded in, carried her out. Miss Garson was taken to a hospital with cuts, bruises, and a sprained back. The fisherman was taken over by the press. Said he: it was like "fishing a slippery sardine out of a bucket." He warmed to his subject: "I've often dreamed of myself clasping Greer Garson in my arms, but I never thought I would...
...likewise impossible to get except on freighters, but the American President Lines hoped to start sending converted transports to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila in June. The Matson Navigation Co. planned to resume sailings to New Zealand and Australia as soon as its four "white ships" (the Matsonia, Monterey, Lurline and Mariposa) are returned and reconverted from troop carriers, probably...
...Fishing? In one night fishermen from Monterey's Cannery Row excitedly seined more sardines (9,000 tons) than ever before. Captain Nick Mezin's stubby Delores M. brought in the largest catch-260 tons. For the night's work the 800-odd fishermen collected close...