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Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, pelted with bizarre job offers after Daughter Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski suggested she go to work, chose to go into business for herself. Scheme: a Gloria Vanderbilt pamper-shop in Manhattan-soaps, lotions, perfume...
...good example of how the railroads will pamper their passengers with new equipment was the $6 million, 60-car order which, last week, was ready for signing with the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. Three railroads (the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Denver & Rio Grande Western, the Western Pacific) plan to operate the new equipment in ten-car, diesel-powered daily streamliners be tween Chicago and San Francisco. The first of the new trains will go into service next summer...
...Curtis Nettels did not precisely agree with Oboler, but he did let fly at Radio's business-as-usual patter. Said he, in the New Republic: "He [the radio advertiser] puts us off guard; he lulls us with a feeling of false security; he invites us to pamper our appetites when we need to be self-denying and hardy. He magnifies the trivial when great efforts are necessary for our survival...
With so much at stake, Russian officers could not afford to pamper wounded men. If a man could walk and carry a gun, a dressing was enough. They returned to the fight, which was tragically like the British withdrawal from Greece. All day the German dive-bombers, horrible with screech-sirens, aimed at flesh and nerves. All night the Russians had to plant land mines...
...tippling, has-been playwright (Thomas Mitchell), a dapper drugstore cowboy (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), a lady of the evening (Rita Hayworth). In a Broadway honky-tonk they tie up with a small-time larcenist (John Qualen) about to commit suicide rather than face punishment for filching $3,000 to pamper his faithless wife. Before the evening is over they unite to win Qualen another $3,000, get themselves into some tense brushes with gamblers...