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...share to PWA, for continuance of heavy construction projects (TIME, June 26). The measure also killed the Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead and other theatrical talent created a diversion in behalf of restoring FTP. Secretary Ickes climbed Capitol Hill to ask $500,000,000 outright, instead of a diverted $125,000,000, for PWA. But Franklin Roosevelt created the biggest diversion of all by asking Congress to inaugurate...
...them all is Life Savers' 250-foot Parachute Jump. Using hoist cables, the Jump carries couples seated under big umbrellas to the top in 42 seconds, shoots them down in ten. In its first three weeks the Jump fetched 68,000 customers at 40? each, among them Actress Tallulah Bankhead, Attorney General Frank Murphy, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel (thrice), Admiral Byrd (thrice), Musicomedian Victor Moore ("It's too slow going up, too fast coming down"), Bullfighter Sidney Franklin. Other parachuters : a couple who hold the riding record (nine trips), a blind man, a legless War veteran, two drunks...
...glamor spots are short on entertainment, long on drinking, atmosphere, names, the bill. Snooty, half filled with celebrities, half with celebrity-chasers, offering Lucullan food but not even the twang of a guitar, is Jack & Charlie's legendary "21." After midnight, debs, young Roosevelts, Beatrice Lillie, Tallulah Bankhead, lesser fry, haunt Sherman Billingsley's cool, decorative Stork Club. More on the Social Register side, less on the Who's Who, and both hard on the purse, are pugnacious John Perona's zebra-striped, rhumba-flavored El Morocco, the newer and elegant Fefe's Monte Carlo...
...Little Foxes. Tense, biting drama with Tallulah Bankhead brilliantly imperious in the leading role (TIME...
...inventory but it is no great contribution to the permanent solution of the U. S. cotton problem. That problem is basically the loss of foreign markets, for the U. S. used to export two-thirds of its annual crop, now exports only one-third. Alabama's Bankhead (Tallulah's uncle) has an answer in the form of export subsidies but the Senate last week turned it down, largely because the subsidies would directly benefit no one in the U. S. In defense of the defeated measure Texas' Tom Connally orated...