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Catnapping in her bedroom before her evening performance of The Philadelphia Story, stormy, eel-hipped Actress Katharine Hepburn woke to see a burglar about to loot her dressing table. She shrieked: "What the hell are you doing there?", leaped out of bed. The burglar, scared witless, hurtled down the stairs, Miss Hepburn after him, escaped in a waiting car. No jewels were missing...
...Manhattan a cinemaddict stumbled drowsily into a taxi, mumbled "Juarez," took 40 winks. When he woke, Driver William Lysaght was tooling through Philadelphia, hell-bent for Juarez, Mexico. The sleeper's expenses: taxi fare: $40.35; two useless theatre tickets...
...lengthy piano concertos during his first week in Manhattan had upset his nerves. After the concert he returned in a panic to his hotel room, where he immediately started to practice for his second appearance. The other guests banged angrily on their radiator pipes. So he went out again, woke up the watchman at the Steinway Piano Company's warehouse, and spent the rest of the night practicing by candle-light in a loft where the pianos were stored...
...blood to hold the office) enabled Franklin Roosevelt to put Charles Edison on the job. Recent naval history made it a formidable task. Post-War reaction against armaments in 1922 led the U. S. into the Washington (naval limitation) Treaty and a long naval sleep. Sailor Roosevelt woke up the country with a bang in 1933, dumped PWA funds into an emergency program, followed up with regular appropriations as soon as Depression I began to lift, has not let up during Depression II. On its Navy the U. S. has spent $2,742,000,000 since 1933, is asked...
France suddenly woke up last week to the fact that hereafter, by virtue of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's conquest of Catalonia (see p. 17), she would have only one neighbor-Rebel Spain-to her south instead of the two warring neighbors she has had for the last two and a half years. Moreover, the realization grew that this new Spanish neighbor, puppet of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, might not prove to be the friendly one that France has known for more than 100 years...