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Lieut. Commander Robert Lovett became a banker, a partner in Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. So did his chum of Locust Valley, Yale and Dunkirk, Lieut. Commander Artemus Gates who became president of the New York Trust Co., a director of many corporations including TIME Inc. Early this year Franklin Roosevelt revived the post of Assistant Secretary of War for Air (it had lapsed under the New Deal) and named Bob Lovett to the job. Last week he moved again, appointed a new Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air-this time Artemus Gates. In 25 years the Yale Unit had flown...
...most famous legs at the ankle. . . Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano had his tonsils out. . .Cinemactress Brenda Marshall had an appendectomy week after husband William Holden. . .Publicity Division: Cinemactress Brenda Joyce's teeth were picked by the Southern California Dental Association as the swellest in Hollywood. . . Warner Bros. insured the beard of Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came to Dinner) for $10,000. The insurance company's provisos : Woolley has to wear a fireproof silk beard snood, smoke through a noncombustible cigaret holder, refrain from smoking...
...week a frustrated soap-opera character will have the dubious distinction of turning up in two lathery melodramas at the same time. His script name is Michael West (played by Actor Joe Julian), gimpy-legged lover of Big Sister, a radio do-gooder of note. So attractive did Lever Bros. (Lux, Rinso, Swan) find Mike, whose love for Big Sister is not reciprocated save in a highly platonic way, that they decided to give him a program of his own, tentatively entitled Bright Horizon; The Story of Michael West...
...grand-jury investigation of police graft in 1937 showed what the Old Lady was up to. Investigator Edwin N. Atherton reported that McDonough Bros, controlled men all through the police department, was "a fountainhead of corruption, willing to interest itself in almost any matter designed to defeat or circumvent the law." No one could open a bawdy house or gambling dive without Mc-Donough approval, and a McDonough okay was insurance that the police would rarely drop around except for a payoff. The payoff ran into staggering figures. San Francisco's 135 "regular, old-established" brothels and its hundreds...
McDonough Bros, was founded as a saloon by Patrick McDonough, a retired police sergeant. His two sons, Pete and Thomas, tended bar. The McDonoughs began writing bail bonds as a favor to lawyers who tippled at their bar. When they learned that the lawyers were charging their clients for these bonds, they began charging too. After old man Mc Donough died, Pete ripped out the bar, dealt solely in bail bonds, soon became a millionaire...