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...good breaks seem to come to him, but he works hard at his jobs. At West Point he boned for the air service, graduated 240th in his 1923 class of 261, made the air grade by reason of his superb physical condition (he is a lithe 165-pounder), became one of the Army's crack attack pilots and instructors. He met his wife at a West Point hop. They have a son, 16, who wants to go to the Academy, and a daughter...
...expert and housemother. Ingrid Bergman would prefer not to be photographed unless Colby is on hand. Jennifer Jones thinks twice about blowing her nose without reporting to Colby. Inde pendent of Publicity Chief Don King, she works closely with Selznick, handling all deals public and personal which call for grade-A finesse. Her social and journalistic contacts in both New York and Hollywood are peerless; she calls Winchell Walter and Lyons Lennie. To all the people on earth who most matter to David Selznick, she is an indispensable one-woman pipeline...
...planned to ration most of the foods which had become point-free earlier this year: meat (including utility-grade beef), canned vegetables, fats...
...Costa Rica's population is 700,000. In 1940 it had only 174 doctors, 224 druggists, 55 dentists. There were some 400 lawyers, 3,000 teachers (education is free and compulsory but only one in ten reaches the sixth grade), only 500 soldiers, 150 priests. Costa Rica's population is increasing phenomenally (27% between 1930 and 1940, compared to a U.S. gain of 7%). But two children out of 15 die before their first birthday...
...have only an eighth-grade education, or less...