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...Martin's campaign to capture a rich husband (Rudy Vallee). For Rudy, it is the second time around the course (first: as John D. Hackensacker III in Palm Beach Story-TIME, Jan. 4). He seems a little off his game. For Miss Martin, the story is merely a roundabout means of arriving at the discovery that her heart belongs to Dick Powell...
Captain Randolph Churchill, son of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, stopped in the U.S. on roundabout wartime route to England from Egypt. In a Manhattan hotel, his face bruised and his back in a brace because of recent injuries on the North African front, he told reporters: "The English have not been as clever as the enemy in this war. We have been enthusiastic amateurs as compared to professional military men. But we are learning fast and we are going...
Please note enclosures. Face-slapping story seems to have started in Harrisburg. Item was first printed Feb. 25 in Roundabout column. Later we corrected when social editor recalled that it was kicking around in World...
...hold of the most attractive girl in your town and bring her to a film studio. . . . The other way is rather roundabout...
...least for the time being, sewed up Iraq's oil, after the Germans had attacked one of their oil suppliers, Russia, after the Russians had done some damage in the Ploesti fields of Rumania, the oil barrage took on more point and more fury. Last week a roundabout hint of the growing Axis oil squeeze came out of Italy, where it was announced that after Oct. 1 private auto owners would be allowed no gasoline...