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...scene a new kind of public character: a U.S. Senator who was also a Hollywood star. Ex-Congressman Rogers (who resigned to join the Army in 1944) prepared to: 1) run for Senator from California; 2) play the title role in a Warner Bros, movie about his late, gum-chewing, rope-twirling father...
When tall, weedy John Roosevelt, youngest son of the late President, went to work for Boston's Filene Bros., he climbed fast. Fresh out of Harvard, he started as a stock boy ("not stockholder," he quips), soon became manager of Filene's Winchester, Mass, store. In 1941, he joined the Navy, served as a lieutenant until he was discharged a month ago. Last week, young Mr. Roosevelt, 29, was back in retail trade, "the only business I know."* He was hired by his father's friend Walter Kirschner, board chairman of Grayson Shops, Inc., a chain...
...return of the Hunt Ball would be a bracer to tradition-loving England, to county social life and most of all to Moss Bros., London renters of clothing. They succored many a desperate ballgoer whose best tailcoat had been sacrificed to bombs or moths or had been cut into women's suits by coupon-short females...
...Editor Green herded his staffers (Variety calls them "muggs") upstairs into a dusty, top-floor parlor. He was going away for 'a couple of months, he said, and short, swart, 210-pound Nat Kahn, eight years a mugg, would be boss. Out in Hollywood, Green will help Warner Bros, erect it's long-planned monument to the man who made slangy Variety the "showbiz" oracle it is: Founder Sime ("Mr. Broadway") Silverman...
...weight has long been a fascinating subject to the Khan. Before the war, he used to drop in almost daily at London's Berry Bros, (spirits), weigh himself on their famed century-old scales, and jot down the figure, carefully noting the exact items of apparel included...