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...welcome-than the innocent simplicity of 1923 foretold. Before the quarter-century was done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...
Other top Hollywood salaries: Director Leo McCarey ($355,426), Producer Walter Wanger ($282,899), Singer "'Dennis Morgan ($261,000), Barbara Stanwyck ($256,666), Lana Turner ($226,000). Actually, the Treasury report for the calendar year 1945, and the fiscal year ended in 1946, did not tell the whole income story. It listed only salaries paid by companies, and took no account of dividends, capital gains or the "collapsible corporations" which have earned many a Hollywoodian (and many a plain businessman) far more than his salary...
...while Manhattan gossip columnists scrambled to assure their readers that they had known all about the romance for months), herds of reporters were dispatched to find an answer to the question: Who is Eva Sears? Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker (Ghighi Cassini) haughtily announced that she was Mrs. Barbara Paul Sears of the fine old Philadelphia Pauls and thus a society girl of impeccable pedigree. He was wrong. Mrs. Sears was Cinderella, at least by all city-desk specifications...
...Canada's Barbara Ann Scott won the women's world championship for the second year in a row, making it all three for her too. Several outclassed rivals, including overtrained U.S. Champion Gretchen Merrill, didn't bother to compete. But Barbara Ann practiced with unflagging zeal, cautiously observing that "anything can happen." Nothing out of the ordinary...
Married. Winthrop Rockefeller, 35, grandson and an heir of John D. Sr.; and Barbara Paul Sears, 31; he for the first time, she for the second; in Palm Beach, Fla. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...