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...carefully Communists probe the antecedents of anyone they intend to make use of, Intelligence did not risk assigning to the case a professional operative with a past which could come to light. They approached an ordinary stenographer -or rather an exceptionally pretty one- who readily agreed to do her bit for King & Country, joined the Friends...
...audience sat David Selznick when Jezebel had its Hollywood premiere early this month. As Actress Davis venomously kicked aside convention, twisted the code of Southern chivalry, bit her lips to make them kissable, patted her cheeks with a hairbrush to make them scarlet, the audience glanced toward Producer Selznick to see how he liked these things that smacked of Gone With the Wind. If he let fall any comments, they fell in private...
...coal miner, as temporary chairman. Meanwhile Franklin Roosevelt, already heckled by the TVA fuss, was moved to disillusioned comment. Asked a complex question about whether the U. S. would have participated in the World War if it had been fully armed, Franklin Roosevelt wearily replied that it was a bit like saying: If Abraham Lincoln were alive and on the Bituminous Coal Commission, what would he have done...
Lady Luck, the Federal income tax, and the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes did not combine in astronomical figures for any member of the University who was doing his bit for charity, but five persons under the name of "The Harvard Syndicate" are each $100 richer today...
Although this week's swimming will not be Charlie's last bit of collegiate competition, he will undoubtedly be a good deal faster in his own pool, where he'll be splashing for his last time...