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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breathing spell from polio this year, but epidemics hit hard in Britain, Germany, Belgium, Sweden...
Buster Keaton, heavy-lidded Great Stone Face of silent films, flew into Paris for a brief new career. The once-famed comedy star, pushing 51, faced a spell of circus clowning (at a reported $200 a day). His new task, to last a month: 14 minutes of sham dueling, twice a day, with the Cirque Medrano's bandleader. His other plans for the future? "None...
...Yuma, Ariz., KYUM officials announced a new rating system for summer programs: during last week's hot spell an observer was dispatched to the local water system to tot up the rises & falls in the water pressure. (When Yuma's temperature gets near 110°, everybody goes outside to water the lawn, and local water pressure drops; when a particularly popular program comes on the air, people turn off their hoses, rush inside to listen, and the water pressure jumps again...
...little lady with the bright grey eyes had peculiar tastes and peculiar ways. She would roam through back-country towns in her black Hupmobile, stopping at every antique shop and every likely-looking old house to ask permission to poke about a spell. She cared not a jot for antique furniture; what she wanted were old portrait paintings, still-lifes on velvet, birth certificates with watercolor designs around the edges, rusty weathervanes and peeling figureheads...
Georgia Sothern, grand old (32, she says) lady of the U.S. striptease business, spiced up the hot spell by paying a surprise call on her husband at a Springfield, 111. hotel room. As surprised as Husband Harry Finkelstein was his companion of the moment, Sally Rand, grand old (43, she says) lady of the fandanglers. Finkelstein was just treating her for heat exhaustion, protested Miss Rand, but Mrs. Finkelstein had them both arrested for disorderly conduct. Miss Rand's valedictory to the press as the police closed in: "I have nothing to hide...