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After last week's race, the men in the press box were ready to forgive Hagg all this puckery humor. In awed silence, they watched him take off his shoes and patter barefoot over the scorching concrete of the stadium to the broadcasting booth. There, impassive as a totem pole, he stood before a microphone, said hello to his countrymen back home...
...with two heads named Two-Top Gruskin, who once attended a masquerade as a pair of book ends holding a book entitled My Son, My Son. Man-crazy Miss Duffy, the boss's daughter and pure Tenth Avenue, is Gardner's pretty, redheaded exwife, Actress Shirley Booth (My Sister Eileen, Tomorrow the World...
Gardner was selling pianos when he met Shirley Booth at a friend's house. His opening was typical: "Little girl, you need awakening." She replied that apparently he needed sleep. They were soon married. Mrs. Gardner joined a stock company in Springfield, Mass., and her husband sold miniature golf courses. Mrs. Gardner began making money and a name for herself. Ed was distressed ("I'm a very buck-conscious fellow"). To one "dizzy dame" who tittered "And is this Mr. Booth?" |he snarled: "Yes, John Wilkes...
...Leonard Lyons quoted Hollywood's Nunnally Johnson: "All the film companies got together and agreed not to pay less than $250,000 for any play." With gas rationed, Broadway expects a terrific summer. Cracked Walter Winchell: "There is talk that Harold Ickes' picture will soon replace Edwin Booth's in all the actors' clubs...
...letter he wrote so appalled Governor Dewey that he immediately phoned Manhattan Lawyer Archie O. Dawson, told him to inspect the hospital. After phoning the Governor from a booth outside the gates, Dawson entered the neat-appearing, modern, $14,000,000 hospital which had 4,580 patients, 713 employes. Findings published last week...