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After four days of strike and profane telephone calls to Lapham's listed home number, the trolleymen went back to work. This week the brakemen on the cable cars were once again clanging "shave-and-a-haircut" up & down Nob Hill...
Monday dawned, and Moscow still said nothing of Earl Browder's whereabouts. Brooks Atkinson cabled to the New York Times: "He has had sufficient time to reach Moscow, unpack his bag, shave, take a bath. . . . This bureau's staff of efficient secretaries, couriers, chauffeurs and writers-in that order of relative importance -cannot locate Earl. Let us know if you hear anything...
...Progress. The sly dog who wrote this smooth doggerel says of himself: "I live a hideous life, and very often shave after lunch. I have four children and one wife. The fourth (a manchild) is extraordinarily handsome and good. All the other children are female and very high-minded...
...with him when French started clicking pictures from a front-row seat. Terrible-tempered Sir Thomas stopped the orchestra, turned on French. "You go home," he barked. French went; he had his picture. He sassed Rumania's Queen Marie when she asked him: "Don't you ever shave?" Retorted French: "Say, I been following you for the last coupla days at 60 miles an hour. When d'ja think I'd have time to shave?" Sent to photograph a prize canary, French whirled the bird around his head until it was groggy enough to hold still...
Veteran cinemaddicts have long known by heart most of the public details* of Clark Gable's private life. But moviegoing youngsters may find it hard to believe that Gable was already going great guns when Van Johnson was just learning to shave, and Frank Sinatra growing out of knee pants...