Hollywood Stars and Women Shape Box Office Destiny
article notes Hunt Stromberg crediting women with steering audience choices and headlines several female-led or influenced projects. It highlights stars like Joan Crawford Myrna Loy Rosalind Russell Connie Moore and Ethel Barrymore signing deals and upcoming films and radio work, plus industry chatter about Gary Cooper James Stewart and various 1940s film connections and productions.
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T’s
Hunt Stromberg
Jane Russell
Louis Hayward
Stromberg
Hst
Joan Crawford
Myrna Loy
Rosalind Russell
New York bookshop closed after Nazi espionage links unearthed
U.S. Treasury detailed how Westermann's bookshop in midtown Manhattan served as a major source of U.S. military information for Germany from 1926 to 1941. Ernest Eisele, native German and firm president, and others were implicated for failures to register as alien agents. the case was referred to federal authorities. The shop's operations included shipping aviation and military periodicals abroad before its 1941 closure.
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Washington, D. C
B. Westermann
Manhattan
Treasury
Associated Press
Germany
United States
Wilhelmstrasse
Westermann
Ernest Eisele
Eisele
Westermann's
Scherl Publishing Company
Scherl
Alfred Hugenberg
Krupp
Hitler
Joseph Goebbels
Scher
Aero Digest
Coast Artillery Journal
Department of Justice
District of Columbia
Seaman Returns From War Loses Honeymoon Funds in Robbery
A wounded sailor and his 18 year old wife were the targets of a masked holdup in Los Angeles as he returned from two years of battle. The 19 year old husband Nolan Truman Marks fought back while his wife was wounded. the couple’s $100 honeymoon savings vanished. Marks, still recovering from a heart wound, fainted at the scene and later told hospital staff, I sweated two years for this.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Nolan Truman Marks
Marks
Radio Helps Close Jaw Of Fisherman At Sea
New Orleans report describes a coast guard medical officer using remote control to snap the jaw of a fisherman on a small boat 200 miles offshore. Radio operator Guy Delp relayed each motion to the vessel and the man was reported OK after the procedure.
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New Orleans
Coast Guard
Guy B. Delp
J. G
Harry F. Kaack
Clinton
Iowa
Kaack
Edward Nugent
Bad Axe
Mich
Delp
O. K
Midnight Ham Thief Pays and Leaves Note in Savannah
An honest burglar with a craving for meat visited William F. Mullis' Savannah grocery store at night. He stole two slices of ham and left 35 cents on the counter with a note saying he was meat hungry and would not have done it, signed A Good friend.
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Savannah
William F. Mullis
Mullis
Cabinet changes long expected in Washington
The column outlines Morgenthau resignation tensions with President Truman over backing and timing. It notes Morgenthau would have been next in line for the presidency, his departure, Byrnes appointment strength for the cabinet, and the shift of focus to postwar diplomacy as Berlin hosts the Big Three conference and the charter moves forward.
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Washington
Henry Morgenhau
Truman
Morgenthau
Jayan
Mr. Morgenthau
Mr. Truman
Aterva
Stettinius
James F. Byrnes
Messrs. Truman
Byrnes
Berlin
New York
Treasury
Fred M.vinson
State
Justice
New World
Poland
Latvia
Esthenia
Lithuania
Turkey
Middle East
Japan
Stalin
Kansas City
Willkie
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Dennis O'Keefe
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Ethel Barrymore
David O' Selznick
Vanguard Company
Ethel Lina White
Dorothy McGuire
RKO
Carol Bruce
Carol
Minneapolis
Curt Massey
Andrews Sisters
N K Ranch
Vera Ellen
Radio City Music Hall
Virginia Mayo
Goldwyn
Virginia
James Stewart
USAAF
America
Dick Nelson
CBS
Men of Vision
Nelson
Stewart
Hollywood
Gary Cooper
Janet Gaynor
Fay Wray
Charles Farrell
Richard Arlen
Norma Talmadge
Clark Gable
Carol Lombard
Ramon Navarro
Joaner
Gable
Arlen
Miss Crawford
Arthur Loft
Came Jones
Loretta Young
Monty Woolley
Bill Gargan
Republic
Paramount
U.S
N. Y
India
Little Eve
Co. D. Lucas
Dyer
Adam
Okinawa
Lee
Pittsburgh
Captain Sharpe
Ordnance Headquarters
London
Bretton Woods
Congress
Sewing Circle Needlework
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