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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian magazine called Insième (Together) announced in Rome that Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, whose husband was shot by a firing squad in 1944 and whose father was killed by a mob in 1945, would be editor of its women's section. The editors said the magazine would stress "the exaltation of family life...
...Jawaharlal Nehru arrived back home just in time to celebrate his 60th birthday. Cheering crowds greeted him at the airport and along the route to a huge public meeting in Bombay, where he accepted from admiring countrymen a $30,000 trinket: a foot-long miniature of the Asoka Pillar (whose crest is the Great Seal of India), made of gold and twinkling with 60 diamonds...
...North Philadelphia railroad sta tion a few weeks ago, an autograph-hunting youngster asked George Preston Marshall : "Are you the coach?" Owner Marshall, whose Washington Redskins (once top-rankers in the National Professional Foot ball League) had just taken a 49-10-14 drubbing from the Philadelphia Eagles, brushed the kid .off with two cryptic words: "Not today." It was quite an admission for the volatile, self-styled genius who sometimes hired coaches to run his team, supercoaches to run the coaches-and then ran the whole thing himself...
Instead of that, Labor M.P. and Editor Michael Foot of the weekly Tribune (whose pretty, 34-year-old bride is an independent film producer) thought the government should "use the opportunity presented by the spectacle of the rocking Rank empire to go into the film business itself." Foot wants to establish a state theater circuit and a national motion picture company to finance independent producers and distribute their films. But his idea got scant support. The government has not done very well with its venture into the movie business so far. It had set up the National Film Finance Corp...
Vaudeville & Rodeo. Setting the touring pace is Bob Hope, whose travels combine good will with handsome personal profit. In the last year, carrying along a band and a bill of vaudeville acts, Comedian Hope has covered 50,000 air miles, 65 cities, collected $1,000,000 from more than 750,000 wide-eyed fans. Cowboy Star Gene Autry spends almost six months a year on money-making one-night stands and rodeo appearances. Recently Jane Russell proved in a 30,000-mile trip that Britain and the Continent will also pay well for a close look at the real thing...