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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1940
Page
6
Pat buys a clock and asks what an eight day clock is. The assistant explains it runs eight days without winding. Pat retorts with a joke asking how long it would run if it were wound.
A playful exchange mocks a spouse who is skilled with string instruments. The retort hints she handles finances tightly, leveraging a pun about strings and purse strings to land a jab.
Virginia Vale reports on on set accidents and stunts during Paramount's Arise My Love with Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland, including a cockpit near-miss and Milland’s injury. She notes makeup changes for Louise Platt in Captain Caution and widespread fan eruptions for Errol Flynn in South America. Frances Langford pressed to perform despite news of husband Jon Hall’s powder-explosion injury.
In Ottawa the French nationalist deputy M. De Kerillis arrives amid talk of a national union government as he recalls a December 1939 prophecy about ousting Daladier and elevating Petain. He argues Petain is not a traitor and notes his past warnings against Communist and Nazi subversives.
Rita Hayworth may be Hollywood's best dressed girl, but in It Happened in Paris her last Columbia role she wears only $50 worth of clothes. In Before Die she appears in a single $10 evening dress. The column notes a lefthanded director and a reversed teaching moment in an odds and ends style slice.
RS. Clara Adams, widow of George L. Adams, marks 26 years as a first flighter while never handling the controls. She has flown on Zeppelins and flying boats, including the Graf Zeppelin, Dornier Do-X, and China Clipper, and recently completed a world circumnavigation in 16 days 19 hours 4 minutes.
instructions for two scarf sizes 18 by 60 and 18 by 36 inches for home use including buffet tables dining dressers. Pattern 2537 provides directions illustrations and stitches materials required. Send order to results in a compact promotional item from a home craft publication.
For the administration of government offices, the trustee must act for the benefit of those entrusted to care, not for those who confer that trust, echoing Cicero on public service ethics.
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