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...Poonsters G. B. Davis '41, Russell Bowie '41, Coles Phinizy '42 and W. B. G. Putnam '41 drew an airwave grand slam when New York station WNEW dealt them a fourteen-week contract to be "funny" every Friday night at 8 o'clock beginning this week...
...read the eulogy of Pierre la Rose signed F.G. in the Crimson of the 16th and although it was charmingly written, I believe the author could very well have omitted the little suggestive slam about Pierre's name. At best it was catty, for if there was a secret it was Pierre's secret, and should have been respected. I knew La Rose well, serving him for 40 years, framing hundreds of his charming exquisitely drawn coats of arms, and always he lived as a man with the name Pierre de Chaignon la Rose would be expected to live. Peace...
Divorced. Fred Perry, pipesmoking British tennist; by Cinemactress Helen Vinson; after four years of marriage; in Los Angeles, Calif. Charged Actress Vinson: "He would argue loudly, slam doors . . . throw the furniture about . . . until 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning...
Then something happened. In ten minutes Wendell Willkie had lost his audience. The speech was logical, well-argued, businesslike-but not the stuff for a throng that wanted emotion, excitement, slam-bang oratory. The applause, at first hopeful, then despondent, finally narrowed down to the reserved seats. That night Willkie's shaken assistant kept from him the news of the Friday Gallup poll...
...cigarets, seldom smile. Hap's girl Linda (Frances Farmer) hates Johnny because he calls her "freckle nose," but that is only a prelude to romance. Hap turns on Johnny for pilfering Linda, but the triangle is straightened out when Hap and Johnny save a burning oil well by slam-bang courage. As in countless previous pictures, Pat O'Brien loses his girl in the end to the ne'er-do-well he has reformed, shrugs his rounding shoulders, once again turns his face to buffeting fate...