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...chairman of the country's flag-line Air-India, and India's foremost industrialist. Tata piloted the old flying machine over the 662-mile route from Karachi to Bombay to celebrate the 30th anniversary of India's first airmail flight, which he himself flew in a Puss Moth, the cousin of the Leopard. He had no trouble on the trip-except for a radio which conked out on the way. Grinned Tata: "It just goes to prove that technical progress has its disadvantages. Thirty years ago, this could not happen because there was no radio...
Time was when any Hollywood name worthy of a headline always got her divorce in Nevada-preferably Reno. The divorce mills there were the fastest in the nation. A divorce-bound glamour puss had only to take up "residence" for six weeks at a guest ranch and gaming table. But in recent years, Nevada's divorce rate has fallen consistently. In fact, there has been such a drop in tabloid-fodder divorces that the New York Daily News has decided to close down its Reno bureau...
...speculates vainly on why its owner is inside) and grabs for an M & R bottle that is sliding toward an open porthole. The viewer thinks the bottle will fall over board. It does, in some commercials; but sometimes the ad is shown with a happy ending. A cartoon for Puss 'n Boots cat food shows a little man eating a can of Puss 'n Boots. A voice asks why he, a man, is doing this. Instead of replying that the cat food is so good that he prefers it to filet mignon, or something equally trite, the little...
When the pratfall and pie-in-the-puss comedy tires him, Comic Wisdom resorts to a genus of comedy that in seven films (all hits) and numberless TV shows he has failed to master: pantomime. While allowing himself to be duped by a charlatan of a music-hall star (played to seedy perfection by Jerry Desmonde), he lisps, giggles, gawks, grimaces, mugs and burbles. "Aggressive," is his psychiatrist's diagnosis at film's end. "I think you'd better grow up a little...
Died. James Allan Mollison, 54, Scottish aviator, first (in 1932) to fly the Atlantic solo from east to west (in a tiny de Havilland Puss Moth monoplane) ; of pneumonia ; in London. A Royal Air Force pilot while still in his teens, Jimmy Mollison went on to set a flock of post-Lindbergh records, including Australia-England (1931) in 8 days, England-Cape Town (1932) in less than 5, and, with First Wife Amy Johnson Mollison, also a headlined pilot, England-India (1934) in 22 hours (not a record...