Hollywood Stars and Backstage Buzz Across 1940s Films
Hollywood gossip surveys film comings and goings. Pola Negri joins Hi Diddle Diddle with Martha Scott as star. John Donat, son of Robert Donat, debuts in This Land Is Mine. David Niven returns in Spit Fire. Ann Richards lands an America role. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby projects shift. Rudy Vallee show spawns Marx and Sherman growth. ODDS AND ENDS notes Lesley Woods Buck private, Road to Utopia, The Girls He Left Behind, Ginny Simms desert camps.
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Pola Negri
United Artists
Adolphe
John Donat
Robert Donat
This Land Is
Charles Laughton
Maureen O’hara
John
Jean Renoir
Lesley Woods
Bright Horison
Goodby
Bouncer
Red Allen
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Utopia
Dorothy Lamour
Phil Baker
20Th Century-Fox
Ginny Simms
White House debate friendlies weigh pay as you go tax plan
At a White House conference farm leaders push Chester Davis to back pay as you go taxes as an anti inflation measure. President hints support if windfalls to the wealthy are eliminated. Ed O Neal and Ezra Benson rally for the plan as a way to ease next year tax payments. The meeting also discusses farm distribution and price ceilings with Goss opposing government buy ups. Ambassador Winant arranges London lodging for six wounded soldiers from Harvard and Dartmouth.
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White House
Chester Davis
Ed O’neal
Farm Bureau Federation
Ezra T. Ben- Son
National Council of Farmeratives
O’neal
G.O.P
O'Neal
Benson
Chester
Davis
Dutchess County
New York
Georgia
Albert Goss
National Grange
Washington
Goss
Albert
Agriculture Department
Ed O'Neal
Farm Bureau
The
Grange
Justice Byrnes
Jim Patton
Farmers Union
John G. Winant
London
Eighth Army
Egypt
Harvard
Dartmouth
60Th Regiment
America
Men Who Go Down to Sea In Ships for Victory
Fishermen face hazards of the sea and wartime shortages as the armed forces consume over half the nation’s frozen fish and 80 percent of mackerel and sardine packs. Civilians turn to fish amid meat shortages while New England crews harvest rosefish once deemed useless as Old Glory sails from Massachusetts toward four to seven day trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
United States
New England
Old Glory
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Grove
Christy Mathewson
Cyrus Denton Young
Paoli
Matty
Big Six
Prominent General Leads Air Transport Command
Maj. Gen. Harold L. George, head of the Army Air Forces Air Transport Command since its formation, is highlighted as a skilled impromptu speaker and key organizer. The article traces his career from World War I pilot to modern logistic leader overseeing overseas moves and essential supplies, with notes on his age, background, and postings.
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York
Harold L. George
Air Transport Command
Army Air Corps
Australia
Jules Verne
Nome
Alaska
Sonerlle
Masi
Law School
National University
Cavalry
Fall
France
Clermont
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Weight, legends, and the enduring boxing debate
The piece discusses long running arguments over fighters weights from Fitzsimmons to Corbett and mentions Babe Ruth's weight in his peak. It notes how weight affects sports beyond boxing and recalls various pitchers and players to illustrate weight and performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beau Jack
Babe Ruth
Corbett
Ruby Robert
Carson City
Fitz
Jim Corbett
Jim Jeffries
Harry Greb
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Western Newspaper Union
Hollywood
Jinx Falkenburg
Jinx
Bob
Columbia Star of
Menjou
Veree Teasdale
Martha Scott
Leon Schlesinger
David Niven
Goldwyn
RKO Radio
Leslie Howard
King Vidtor
Brian Donlevy
Metro
Ann Richards
Pearl Harbor
Margaret O'Brien
Margaret
Screen Guild Players
Jack Benny
Red Skelton
Ebbets Field
Brooklyn
Dodgers
Durocher
Dodger
Rudy Vallee
Groucho Marx
Billie Burke
Ransom Sherman
Marx
Sherman
William L. White
Raymond Paige
Nadine Conner
Metropolitan Opera
Berry Kroeger
NBC
Pola Negei
Washington, D. C
Merry
John Ribeira
Massachusetts
Gloucester
Mass
Who’s News
Consolidated Features
WIN
Gen. George
Kelly Field
Texas
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Hawaii
Maxwell Field
Alabama
Bolivia
Hitler & Co
Enrique Penane Zranda
Chaco
Paraguay
General Penarandsa
la Paz
West Point
Meare Oe
Martinique
George Robert
Pele Rey
Robert
Vichy
French Antilles
George Achilla Marie-Joseph
Fort de-France
Doc Kearns
Jack
Dempsey
Bob Fitzsimmons
Doc
Barney Ross
Benny Leonard
Grantland Rice
Robert Moses Grove
Yankees
Lefty
Kent Blades
Neativan
Bortenssaer, Co
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Citecific
SOTO
San Francisco
Calif
Hayes HI
Grace Hatchery
Twin Falls
Idaho
Haeey
Pyro
Ann Ai
Lydia E. Pinkham
Come Pound
Trenton
Sas
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