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Married. Actor John Emery, 37, ex-husband of Tallulah Bankhead; and Dancer Tamara Geva, 35, ex-wife of Choreographer George Balanchine (now the husband of Dancer Vera Zorina); in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...year and a half after Paramount first announced that it had considered somebody for the role of Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls, the studio was still announcing it. Last week's favorite: Ballerina Vera Zorina...
...that the squadrons of women bomber and fighter pilots and air crews were growing by scores, that many were already taking part in operational flights. Some go out alone in Hurricanes, some even take bombers out at night. Some women have flown 1,000 hours. "One friend of mine, Vera Lomako," said Grizodubova, "who has shot down one Nazi plane, was flying a month before the birth of her daughter and soon afterward she shot down another plane. ... I know girls so quiet and apparently timid that they blush when spoken to, yet they pilot bombers over Ger many without...
...transformation of Mexico. As a young politician, Padilla well remembered that the U.S. in 1846 fought Mexico over the uncertain Texas boundary and ended by taking a third of Mexico's territory, that it got another piece (by purchase) in 1853, that in 1914 it landed Marines at Vera Cruz, that it sent Black Jack Pershing into Mexico to chase Villa in 1916-all humiliations imposed by a big neighbor on a smaller...
...Loganberry, "The Watchdog of the Senate," detailed to New Orleans to investigate the machinations of the Louisiana Purchasing Company. Boss Man William Gaxton is anxious to prevent the Senator from making his investigation and attempts to sabotage shy, misogynist Oliver by filling him with "Mississippi River Water," planting Vera Zorina on his lap, and then snapshooting the scene. Baffled by Loganberry's purity, Gaxton tries again, plants Irene Bordoni in Oliver's bed, but the Senator tops his enemies again by marrying the buxom Madame Bordelaise. Louisiana triumphs in the end, though; the investigation is called off, and Loganberry remains...