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With three echoing cheers for Juliana, three more for a free Holland, the plump blue-clad jack-tars of the Dutch cruiser that brought the war's first royal refugees to the New World last week said good-by to their princesses at Halifax. Immediately, butter-cheeked Juliana, Crown Princess of The Netherlands, and her tiny children-Princess Beatrix, aged 2½, and Princess Irene, aged 9 months-were whisked off to a pine-shadowed log chateau in the Laurentians. Juliana was bitter. Said she: "Never speak to me of pity. Pity is for the weak, and our terrible...
...during the past ten years that they have come to be known as "soap operas." Leading soap-opera impresario is Procter & Gamble, whose 15 serials keep millions of women bathed in Ivory and suspense. Responsible for four of P. & G.'s sudsy dramas is Irna Phillips, a pigeon-plump spinster of 37, formerly a teacher, who has turned out a staggering total of 6,000 scripts in the course of her writing career. Now earning about $4,000 a week, Irna is the highest-paid aerial litterateuse in the country, by long odds the most prolific. Last week...
Nearly three years ago, a tall, plump, perspiring Negro preacher named Glenn T. Settle, trailing 19 dusky members of his Gethsemane Baptist Church, marched into Cleveland's station WGAR and asked permission to sing a few spirituals. The Rev. Settle and his flock were only fair. But to Spiritual-Fancier Worth Kramer, young white program director of WGAR, the colored choir presented a chance to try his hand at arranging Negro music. Adding 16 voices to Settle's original 19, he drummed his arrangements into the musically illiterate group by rote, drilled them for weeks before...
...Simpson, plump, blue-eyed, precocious, moved to Indianapolis with her parents three years ago and joined the sophomore class of a private school for girls. Daughter of a cleaning-fluid manufacturer, she had got her elementary schooling in Plainfield...
...flashy sophomore. Novelist Bromfield is famed for his "characters"; Night in Bombay'?, are so weakly conceived that they not only lack inner consistency but sometimes waver in their physique (e.g., sinister Mr. Botlivala's hands are "very long and thin and very collapsible" on page 74, "plump little hands" on page...