Love as Parton and Blandford Dominate This Week’s Features
WHO'S NEWS profiles F Parton and John B Blandford Jr, highlighting Blandford as the driving force behind postwar housing drift. It notes 278,000 new war housing units in the past year and 30,000 war workers moving monthly, with Blandford praised as a Stevens Institute graduate and Roosevelt appointee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Who’s News This Week
Love
F. Parton
York
John B. Blandford Jr
Blandford
Stevens Institute of Technology
Roosevelt
The Story So Far Continues Cherry Meets Old Ties in San Francisco
Cherry, an orphan at Saint Dorothea's, leaves the school to work for Mrs Porter's firm in San Francisco while gauging her connections. Emma reveals Cherry's mother Emma was her aunt, shocking Cherry and deepening her sense of isolation as she confronts love triangles with Kelly Coates and Fran Marshbanks. The trio visit Kelly's rural Marin County retreat for lunch as a fragile triangle forms.
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Charlotte
Cherry) Rawlings
Saint Dorothea’s
Judson Marshbanks
Emma Haskell
Fran
Amy
Kelly Coates
Cherry
Coates
Emma
Mrs. Porter
Presidio
Bay Shore
Sausalito
Kelly
Topcote
Marin County
Spanish Farm Road
Porter
Prom
Marshbanks
Fred
Judson
Springfield
Fran Marshbanks
Kelly Coate
Billy Severn
Margaret
Richard Quine
Coast Guard
Marcy McGuire
Ginger Rogers
REQO
Ellen Drew
Chungking
Hollywood Awards Sparks and Star News From 1942
Virginia Vale reports on New York film critics choosing In Which We Serve as best picture and notes Noel Coward, James Cagney, Agnes Moorehead, Greer Garson and Katharine Hepburn figures. It covers star gossip from Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature to Rita’s divorce timing and Ann Savage rising star status.
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New York
Noel Coward
Wake Island
James Cagney
Agnes Moorhead
Greer Garson
Katharine Hepburn
Miss Moorhead
Richard Ney
Hollywood
Mrs. Miniver
Household Hacks From a Practical Page
A practical note suggests rubbing melted paraffin on a snow shovel to stop snow cling. Shellac inside metal wastebaskets prevents rust and eases cleaning. Dry shredded coconut can be revived by soaking briefly in sweet milk.
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Walter H. Eddy
Columbia University
Dr. Eddy
Babe Ruth
Institute of Dietetics
Eddy
Army
Col. Cooper
Merian C. Cooper
China
Washington
Claire Chennault
Colonel Cooper
Hannon’s
Minneapolis
Abyssinia
Haile Selassie
Cooper
France
AEF
Europe
Russia
Asia
India
Chennault
Joe Marshbanks
Kathleen Norris
Virginia Vale
Western
Jane Randolph
Tom Conway
Rita Hayworth
Victor Mature
Robert Coote
RCAF
Victoria
B. C
Dorothy Lamour
Veronica Lake
Paulette Goddard
Paramount
Paulette
Veronica
Dorothy
Morocco
Ann Savage
Columbia
Chester Morris
Boston Blackie
Frances Dee
RKO
Moorpark
Calif
Dee-McCrea
United States of America
Cosmetic
DR. Caldwell
James Russell Lowell
Antarctica
Globe
Lydia RE. Pinkham
Pinkham
Peet
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