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...farms are rich only in ragged children, moonshine stills and Redbone hounds. The hero and his hill bride had little chance of escaping poverty. Broke, Gene Atkins was resigned to spend his $300 mustering-out pay for a stock-mule, harness, turning plow, singlefoot, geewhiz, section harrow, planter and wagon-and then sharecropping cotton on another man's land...
Died. Lady Eleanor Smith, 42, novelist (Red Wagon, Flamenco), daughter of the first Earl of Birkenhead; of septic colitis; in London. Prouder of her Romany blood than of her title, she specialized in gypsy and circus stories, wrote her autobiography at eight, did it again at 35 (Life's a Circus) with many a gypsy flourish...
Adele Astaire, 46, who twinkletoed to fame with brother Fred in many a musi-comedy (Funny Face, The Band Wagon) before she became Lady Charles Cavendish, returned to Manhattan as effervescent as ever after a decade of country gentility in England and Eire. She announced that Fred had decided to quit hoofing after his next picture ("which pleases me, for I want the boy to live awhile"). She thought that U.S. living would put her in better shape: "It is wonderful to see all the lovely girdles. You know our posteriors have spread quite a bit over there...
...through the shirt-losing stage. Then A. P. Sloan Jr. got the mushrooming auto industry interested in his bearing for its axles - automakers had been using an ordinary wagon axle, heavily greased. Soon, Hyatt Bearing was making money hand over fist...
...instructions about surrender-would not the Americans fly back to China if he gave them gasoline? In Peiping the commander said he could not allow the teams to see any prisoners until he had instructions from Nanking; meanwhile, he put them up as guests in Peiping's famed Wagon-lits Hotel. Not a single shot was reported fired at the paratroopers who took the long chance on their errands of mercy...