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Jekyll v. Hyde. Said one woman, listening unaware to her own voice (which other observers described as "tender, shy, lovely"): "A discouraged person, cowardly, and an unstable character." Said another woman, looking at her own hands: "Unintelligent . . . brutally sensual." Cried another, confronted by her handwriting: "The writing is so thin-dash it-that one cannot see it. It makes me quite dizzy. I cannot say anything about this handwriting. . . . No, leave me alone, please...
...thought I'd pass it on to you. . . JOHN McMANUS, a former yeoman, had been a Boston College Track Star and still makes his Saturday nite runs into Boston. . . DAVE HORWITZ was in the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal in late '42 and spent some time on a seaplane tender in the South Pacific. . . CLIFF HARRIS was a corpsman on a troop transport that made a tour of Casablanca, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific and he wasn't chasing whales. . . so please, Honey...
Hearts and Beasts. Cinema stars, in ratio to the tender age of their trade, took a less active part than they do today. Pin-up girls were as likely to come from the Police Gazette as from movie magazines. The bond-selling tours of such figures as Fairbanks. Pickford, Hart and Chaplin, though vociferous, were mild compared with the riotous junkets of World War II. Even the publicity stunts had a certain innocence. Sample: Mary Pickford's "adoption" of 600 men of the 2nd Battalion, ist California Field Artillery, each of whom wore her picture in a gold locket...
While we're on the subject of revelry we consider this a perfect opportunity to tender a rousing... and we're sure its unanimous... vote of thanks to Commander Collins and Lt. Anderson for that party last Saturday night at the Hasty Pudding Club. The hasty pastry was quite tasty, thank...
...Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...