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...Ballet Theatre was doing the biggest business in its recent history and losing money hand over fist. Of its $30,000-a-week budget, only a fraction was coming in at the box office. The rest was coming from the company's dance-daft angel, Lucia Chase, widow of Yonkers' carpet tycoon, Thomas Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit. A trouper who once used...
...share at 21, his second at 25, will get his fourth installment at 35. "This is the life," said he. "I like my work very much. I'm just another fellow in the Navy now." Laura Mae Corrigan, 60, wealthy U.S. expatriate who became known as "the American Angel" for her war relief in France, finally had to abandon her work for lack of funds. A Cleveland steelmaker's widow who had been one of London's most spectacular hostesses for more than two decades, she plunged into the job of helping feed, clothe, doctor, and amuse...
...must be luck or the patronizing hand of an angel. Trail broke out under left wing of B-24 bomber. For the scouting planes that are checking on us we wrote a large three dots and one dash for victory and success...
...Angel Street. Suave torture in a dimly lit Victorian drawing room (TIME...
...icebreaker Krassin smashed out a 6,000-mile Arctic sea route (Arch-angel-to-Seattle) between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This northern sea route is now open only three to five months of the year. But new freighters of 10,000 tons are being built and "super icebreakers" of 50,000 horsepower and 24,000 tons are projected...