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...September hurricane moaned in from Cuba, slammed huge seas against the Miami shore, and buzz-sawed on across Florida, killing five people and leaving a $25 million trail of damaged property...
...kinds of trouble. In New Haven, Conn, and Milton, Mass., firemen had to turn up and cool off drawbridges which had expanded in the heat. Indianapolis had a plague of Peeping Toms. In Lakeview, Mich., a 16-year-old boy fainted while cutting wood, toppled into a buzz saw, and was killed. By week's end 147 people had died, mostly from heat prostration. New York police, ordered to help keep the city's water consumption down to 1,300,000 gallons a day, were driven wild by wrench-waving gangs who turned on hundreds of hydrants...
...chatter: daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. Things were being arranged so that mother could broadcast from wherever she happened to be at the moment. Her first chat would probably be from Paris, where she was going next month to attend the UN conference. Accompanying her as her secretary: grandson Curtis ("Buzz") Boettiger, now 18 and lately an assistant producer (handyman) on radio's Bride & Groom give-away show...
...they are inseparable, buzz in & out of each other's houses, often leave their wives twiddling their thumbs at the gin rummy table while they rush to the piano with an idea. Each considers the other, in Hollywoodese, a "great genius." Sammy likes to say that Jule writes "a warm tune" and "lets the melody go where it wants to go." But, says Jule: "I always give the pros a chance to use their voices, usually at the end so the public knows when to stand up and clap...
Dore Schary, RKO's earnest, gifted executive vice president in charge of production, was out (TIME, July 12). Like a thousand bumblebees in a clover field, the buzz of Hollywood speculation hung on the question of who would succeed Schary. Secretive Howard Hughes would not say. "It will be," he said, "someone you least suspect, a shocker...