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Their partnership lasted 31 years, until Clapper's death in an airplane crash in the Pacific in February, 1944. They worked their way through the University of Kansas; even when they moved to Washington, and stooped, big-eyed Ray Clapper became first a crack U.P.man, then a Scripps-Howard columnist, they collaborated. Every morning, Olive sat on his bed while they criticized his efforts to "write it for the milkman in Omaha." After breakfast she would sit him down to make voluminous entries in his diary...
...fine Austrian hand which is responsible for the picture's most memorable moments--Birnam's organized, stumbling search down New York's Third Avenue in search of an open pawn shop, the nightmarish scene of delirium in Bellevue's alcholic ward, Birnam's whirling crash down a whole flight of stairs...
While United Air Lines chalked up a rare crash (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS),Transcontinental & Western Air hung up a record. A TWA Constellation, with TWA President Jack Frye at the controls and 45 passengers aboard, flew from Los Angeles to New York in 7 hours 27 minutes nonstop last week: 6½ hours faster than most regularly scheduled airliners. Average speed: 329 m.p.h. Within the month, TWA will begin flying Constellations regularly on the route. Proposed time: 10 hours...
...probably the one most admired by cinemaddicts of both sexes, Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1901, and got his first stage experience as prop boy in an Akron stock company. He had ups & downs on Broadway and in stock. Then, after several years of trying to crash the screen, he was given his first sizable Hollywood role in 1931 (The Easiest Way, with Constance Bennett). By 1932 he was ranked among the top ten U.S. money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Greta Garbo...
...Dillon, several years his senior, ended in divorce, 1930; marriage to wealthy Texas Widow Ria Langham, also several years his senior, tnded in divorce, 1939; marriage, regarded by fan magazines as a "true love" match, to famed blon.de Cinemactress Carole Lombard, ended by her death in a Nevada air crash, January 1942. Recently Gable has squired ex-Model Anita ("The Face") Colby (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945), blonde Cinemactress Virginia Grey, and moneyed Widow Laura ("Dolly") Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien...