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...first partner (in pre-Hollywood days) was his sister, pert, chic Adele, who left him in 1932 to become Lady Cavendish and live in an Irish castle. The second was Ginger Rogers, who joined him in his second picture, Flying Down to Rio, in 1933. Six years later, just as Adele had left him, so Ginger Rogers departed, to shroud her lyric legs in the toga of a dramatic actress. Astaire tried two new partners: proficient, metallic Eleanor Powell and gaminous Paulette Goddard. Neither Hollywood nor the nation was impressed...
Sirs: TIME (July 21) asserts that Senator Wheeler has said: "There will be revolution in this this country if damnable the war. . . ." Administration gets us into To which TIME'S curt, pert editor adds: "Not in Atlanta, Ga., where Senator Wheeler was refused the use of the city auditorium." Let TIME think again. This is revolution. Whatever one thinks of Burt Wheeler's views, it is Nazi revolution when our Constitution is ignored and a U.S. Senator-or any other American, for that matter-is denied his right to express his opinion on public policy in a public...
Franklin Roosevelt's personal representative was covering a lot of ground. Exactly three days after he made a radio speech in London, promising immediate aid to Russia, the skinny fellow who is called by London's pert cockneys "that there Mister Hurry Upkins" turned up at the Kremlin in person. He flew to Moscow to find out just what Joe Stalin wanted, and how to get it to him in a hurry...
...possess the studied virtuosity of the S. J. Perelman heroine who left the room in high dudgeon and returned in low dudgeon, just to show her versatility. But she is an exasperatingly contradictory female. Life confounds her. Attention is her dish. Her water-bug mind, attractively camouflaged by a pert, pretty face and curly, blonde topknot, tends to forget people when they aren't around...
...before Myrt, let her reduce the crowd to 35. Then it took over a couple of CBS studios, crowded advertising executives and the program director in one, put Myrt in the other. Forthwith auditions commenced. It took three days to pick the new Marge. Unanimous choice for Marge was pert, black-haired Cinemactress Helen Mack, who had the role of a streetwalker in His Girl Friday...