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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Hayes makes the most of her one-woman show. Torching a custom-built Rodgers-Hammerstein number, 'I Haven't Got a Worry in the World,' or toasting everyone in sight from a tectering perch atop three bar stools (sample: "May all your troubles be little ones and may all your little ones be yours"), she renders choice Loos-isms classic. Her love scene under the table with Louis Jean Heydt, staged to the exactly appropriate subdued degree, is something you are not likely to forget...
...arrival at Eleusis airport. The plane was ahead of schedule. Archbishop Damaskinos, the hulking Regent, and Constantin Tsaldaris, the choleric Premier, were nowhere in sight. Said the King to minor officials who received him: "I'm sorry that I don't recognize all of you, but I extend my greetings." Several correspondents and newsmen, who would have liked to talk to the King, were detained in an airport building by an armed guard. When Damaskinos and Tsaldaris finally arrived, out of breath, King George was whisked aboard a destroyer, where he spent the night...
Twenty minutes later the first contingent of finishers should pull into sight on the stretch back of Newell, which is also the finish line. The race amounts to a time trial for every man on the squad, and the ten best times will give some indication of this fall's Varsity and what...
...where he sees nobody except his very small staff, a very few friends, and, currently, his sister Catherine. His mistress has never been known to visit him there. He goes off quietly to see her. On the Sunday of the recent plebiscite (TIME, Sept. 9), he dropped out of sight completely. The explanation was that he was "in the country with friends." The general supposition that he was in the country with his friend is borne out by the vigor with which his staff rejected all inquiries concerning his whereabouts at the time...
With its new outside capital the company will redeem $5,150,000 worth of outstanding preferred stock. The balance it will probably use to build bigger plants, market new varieties. Prospective investors, getting their first look inside the Heinz door, saw an appetizing sight. Last week Heinz reported that sales for the year ending last April 30 were $114,150,564. Net profit, $4,052,084, one of the best in the company's history...