Hollywood Gossip Roundup and Couture Rumors
Hollywood column deconstructs rumored romances and casting edits. Vic Mature dating “Junie” is whispered amid production delays for The High Window and other casting chatter. Betty Hutton commands $25,000 weekly. Paulette aims to reshape future-wemale roles. industry updates include Preminger directing Cobb and more contract news.
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Harrison Carrol
King Features Syndicate
Hollywood
Haver
Vic Mature
Diane
Hollywood Florist
Vic
Little Junie
Twentieth Century 9Fox
We Ford
Darling Clemen
Hollywood Beach
Betty Hutton
Chair innovations through the centuries
Britannica notes the swivel chair appeared four centuries ago in the boss’s office and cites an 1800s “conversation chair” used by dandified gentlemen facing the back to avoid wrinkling tail coats.
Woman shoemaker runs tiny factory in Beverly Hills
Arleene Chaplain, 23, presides over a one woman shoe business in Beverly Hills with 20 workers. Her tropical garden style workroom features a lily pond and sky ceiling. She shifted from design to shoemaking after failed searches for ideal shoes and won an $8,000 New York order, then expanded to a full factory and later married Henry Vanstuan.
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Victor Gunson
Central Press
Beverly Hills
Calif
Verly Hills
Makk
America
Arleene Chaplain
Miss Chaplain
Bobby Soxers
Dick Haymes
Frank Sinatra
Industralist
Chaplain
Washington State
California
Akron
Ohio
Arleene
Laughney
Ileene
New York
Glin
Henry Vanstuan
Henry
North Carolina Charges Park Service Discrimination
North Carolina officials accuse the National Park Service of bias in developing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. At a three day meeting Percy Ferebee of Andrews criticizes Western Carolina access while Walter Damtoft of Canton urges better facilities on the North Carolina side.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
National Park Service
State Board of Conservation and Development
Percy Ferebee
Andrews
Park Service
Walter Damtoft
Canton
Forests Committee
Two Shorthand Reporters Count Words Writ Tenure
Olaf Nodbye of Renville and William C. Hard of Minneapolis, deans of the Minnesota Shorthand Reporters association, estimate each has written 41,400,000 words over 46 years. The note adds a historic remark that English schools taught Latin through French as late as the seventh century.
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Minneapolis
Olaf Nodbye
Renville
Minn
William C. Hard
Minnesota Shorthand Reporters Association
Mrs. Augusta C. Erwin Dies in Morganton
Mrs Augusta C Erwin sister of Mrs A H Whitley of High Point died in a Morganton hospital Wednesday Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at the home 401 South Greene Street Morganton She was mother of Nancy Lee Erwin and Sandy Erwin who visit High Point and have many friends there Mrs Whitley was with her sister at death and will stay for the funeral services.
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Augusta C. Erwin
A. H. Whitley
High Point
Morganton
South Greene Street
Carrot Production Surges in 1940s United States
Britannica notes carrots were rare in the U S before 1920 but by 1941 output reached 18 million bushels annually. California Texas New York and New Jersey led production, reflecting rapid expansion in last decades.
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United States
Encyclopaedia Britannica
California
Texas
New York
New Jersey
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