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Abed last week were not only Franklin D. Roosevelt (see p. 15), but Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth, after a brief collapse from the heat; Democratic National Committee Boss Ed Flynn, with bronchitis, after measles; ex-New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman, following a hernia operation. Ill again of dysentery was Kermit Roosevelt in London, where failing health forced him to resign his commission as major in the British Army...
with The Groaner trucking around the studio stage in an old pair of slacks and the tails of his gaudy shirts hanging out, kidding the men in the control booth or joking with wheel-chaired Connie Boswell...
Mike Quill, who carries a briar stick and limps around with a bullet in his hip, which he got in the Irish Republican Army, has been fighting since he was a Boy Scout. He started his labor career in the U. S. as moneychanger in a subway booth, got interested in union politics and helped start T. W. U. In 1937 he got a closed-shop contract for his new, pugnacious union. In 1939, as candidate for re-election to the New York City Council, he took the Communist line, refused to go along with the American Labor Party...
...King-size cigaret (85 mm. instead of 70) was nothing new. For over 60 years, "longs" of a wholly Turkish blend had been sold, but mostly to tired old women, Booth Tarkington and Erich von Stroheim. Frank Riggio figured that by putting an American blend in the 85 mm.s he could broaden their market. The 20% extra length would give a cooler, longer smoke; the 11% extra tobacco required would hike the manufacturing cost only 35? a thousand (from around $5)-not enough to throw them out of price competition* with the popular brands. Young Mr. Riggio figured right...
...case. More probably, it was rumored, Director Welles would give Publisher Hearst a private preview, make necessary adjustments. Seldom in Hollywood history had there been such a prospective buildup. Wiseacres shook their heads in wonder. Was it inspiration or luck? Orson Welles might not be the Junius Brutus Booth of his generation, but some thought he had a jumbo streak of the old Barnum...