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...Duchess of Windsor is 44 years old, has a large mole on the right side of her chin and jowls that are beginning to sag. Last week, as the royal pair sailed for the Bahamas, Manhattan newspapers reported that the Duchess would stop in the U. S. for a plastic operation on her face. Whether she intended to have her mole clipped, her nose cropped or her face lifted, no one could say. She had reputedly engaged rooms at Manhattan's Wickersham Hospital for the second week in September. Her surgeon was to be Dr. Irving Daniel Shorell...
...loss of life, but both rose inevitably as the official daily tallies of shot-down German raiders rose from a half-dozen to a dozen, then to a score. Germany was trying to "soften up" Britain, apparently in preparation for real mass attack, then for invasion. Britain's chin went up & out as she refused to admit "softening...
Some 22,000 fight fans went to see the show. The boys slugged, slapped, tugged, butted, pushed, did everything but reach for their water bottles. In the first round, Baer went after the fresh wound on Galento's chin which Tony's disgruntled brother had caused by slinging a beer glass at him two nights before. By the seventh round Galento was spouting blood, reeling drunkenly, his eyes closed, his head throbbing where he had landed with a running, broad butt at Baer's jaw. When the bell rang for the eighth round, Galento...
...English producers have made any plans for new productions; the only fresh play in sight is Women Aren't Angels, a bawdy farce due to leave the suburbs for London this week. More & more producers have turned to revivals of old box-office certainties like Chu-Chin-Chow. Be fore an audience of men in soft shirts, women carrying gas masks, that old historic spectacle last week made its 2,239th performance. Oldsters were disappointed in Lyn Harding's performance in Chu-Chin-Chow, said it didn't stack up with that of beefy Oscar Asche...
...harder and oftener at political cartoons than at the editorial pages. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a caricaturist's "natural." But his cartoon character did not evolve overnight. At his nomination in 1932, top-flight Cartoonist "J. N. Ding" (Jay Norwood Darling) had already caught Roosevelt's cowcatcher chin and vaudeville grin. Added later were weightier jowls, up-jutting cigaret holder that make up the now-familiar Roosevelt caricature...