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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virginia Gildersleeve was born and raised on Manhattan's 48th Street-just across from where Rockefeller Center now stands-but she summered in the country. She was a solemn, round-eyed child who seldom went to parties. Her playmates were a pet goat, a pony and a horse named Billy, and she stood no nonsense from them. Once the pony took the bit in his teeth and tried to run away with her. Virginia guided him through the half-open gate of a handy race track, and let him run around the track until his wind gave...
International's production boss is round-faced, even-tempered William Goetz, 42, who did a bang-up job of running 20th Century-Fox while Darryl Zanuck was a colonel in the Army. After making the Academy Award picture, The Song of Bernadette, Goetz quit in a huff when Zanuck returned and began acting like a "little colonel" around the studio. Goetz approached dark, dapper Leo Spitz, 57, Hollywood's legal and financial know-it-all. A boy wonder (he earned his Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees before he was 21), Spitz masterminded the reorganization...
...machine had won the first round. When the lie detector was introduced, its grim little pointer spotted surprised liars almost as soon as they opened their mouths. Hardened virtuosos who could fool a cop, a clergyman-or even a wife-were no match for the polygraph...
With nine teams operating on the Indoor Athletic Building courts, the Physical Education Department has scheduled 14 more games for the first half of the competition, which will run 'till December 18. In addition to the teams already mentioned, Lowell House, which fielded a strong entry last spring, will round out the list of entrants...
Despite ample warning, Pan Am's competitors were caught with their rates up. American Overseas Airlines went on charging $572. Britain's BOAC charges $647 one way, $1,299 round trip. But the American Express Co. was on its toes. On the basis of the new fares, it offered a two-week, all expense air tour of Europe next summer. Price...