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Tall, auburn-haired Dorothy Shaver began her career with rag dolls. Last week, from her $75,000-a-year job, she went to greater riches. She was elected the first woman president of Fifth Avenue's smart Lord & Taylor, to succeed Walter Hoving, president...
Once upon a time, when the Yewnited States was just a little shaver among the nations, but already very spoiled along the literate Eastern fringes, there lived younder in Tennessee a lovable old man with a tongue like a rat-tailed file and a face so hard they called him Old Hickory. He was a great hero. In the War of 1812, he licked the British in the Battle of Noo Orleens (some time after peace had been made). Everybody loved him because he had come up the hard way from nothing to a plantation and owning slaves...
...Nevada divorce mill ground out another decree, like thousands before and since. Middle-aged O. B. Williams and Mrs. Lillie Shaver Hendrix stopped six weeks at a Las Vegas auto camp to qualify for residence. They divorced their former spouses and were married. Back in North Carolina, a strange homecoming awaited them: each was convicted of bigamous cohabitation and sentenced to jail...
...from the North Carolina backwoods-there is nothing slow about Slaughter. He is the second-best batter (.318) in the National League, is almost a Ty Cobb on the bases, has a magnetic mitt and a mighty arm (developed, he says, pegging stones at rabbits when he was a shaver...
...wear "inconspicuous" makeup, may wear civilian clothes on leave, will wear girdles if they bulge unmilitarily, will not be disciplined by confinement in Army guardhouses. As to the all-important uniform, prospective WAACs sighed with relief to find that the Army does not intend to design it. Miss Dorothy Shaver, vice president of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor, has charge of that momentous problem. Permitted to watch, as Mrs. Hobby was crisply sworn in, was Mr. Hobby. Said Reporter George Dixon of the New York Daily News: "If ever a man looked as if he was saying to himself what...