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...giving their money. Then, without so much as a telephone call to Republican headquarters, he set up his "Campaign Operations Group." He enticed to the Coast a former advertising man he had met in the Navy, 35-year-old Ross Barrett, gave him a $15,000 salary and three well-paid assistants, set them to work on a plan to sell Republicanism...
Match into Holocaust. Production costs are pared by filming time-eating outdoor shots with low-paid doubles and stunt men. With transparencies and miniatures, the film is finished in the studio, using a minimum of a well-paid actor's time. The Bills wangle Army & Navy tie-ins : in one picture they used 250 Army planes, in another, a group of Navy divers. Cracked one Hollywoodite : "They strike a match and make it look like a five-alarm fire...
Harry Hopkins did not plan to quit work altogether. He promptly accepted the quasi-public position of czar of New York's garment industry, a well-paid ($25,000) job which requires no more attention than it got from his predecessor, New York City's onetime playboy Mayor Jimmy Walker...
Died. Bruno Frank, 58, big, balding expatriate German author (The Man Called Cervantes), playwright (Storm over Patsy), and more recently a well-paid Hollywood script writer (A Royal Scandal); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills...
Died. Tess Slesinger (rhymes with messenger), 39, mordantly witty littérateur, whose early, bright promise as an author (The Unpossessed) faded when she became a well-paid cinemadapter (The Good Earth, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn); after long illness; in Hollywood...