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Born. To Charles Spencer ("Charlie") Chaplin, 59, longtime cinema comic, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 23, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their third child (his seventh, including the daughter of onetime protégée Joan Berry), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Josephine Anna. Weight...
Voznesensky was a protégé of the late Andrei Zhdanov. His removal may be explained by the death of his patron, or by charges made before the Supreme Soviet last week that Russian industry was producing things easy to make rather than the things needed by the people...
...Under Secretary of State, James Edwin Webb, at 42 is a swiftly rising star in the Administration. A broad-shouldered and affable North Carolinian, Webb is a lawyer and a former vice president of the Sperry Corp. A pilot, he was a wartime Stateside major in Marine aviation. A protégé of North Carolina's late O. Max Gardner, Webb became Truman's Director of the Budget in July 1946. There he made many friends, no enemies. When a reporter asked the President what Webb's qualifications were for Under Secretary of State, Harry Truman...
...unusual for Welles to take late walks; he had insomnia. His doctor said that he had been troubled with heart disease ever since he had had a heart attack 18 years ago. Lately he had been deeply upset by the death of Laurence Duggan, who had been his protégé and a close friend...
Later he was a protégé of famed Editor Fremont Older. When Older became convinced that Tom Mooney (whom he disliked) had been railroaded to jail for the Preparedness Day bombing of 1916, the Bulletin's bosses refused to back up their editor. W. R. Hearst sent Older a wire: COME TO THE CALL. BRING THE MOONEY CASE WITH YOU. Older took Johnny Bruce with him too, and Bruce dug up the evidence that eventually helped free Mooney...