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...vegetables. She won a divorce. In Chicago, Mrs. Nellie Vileta, freshly divorced, told the judge that her husband had swiped her false teeth and used all the meat coupons for himself. She got the teeth as alimony. In Kansas City, Walter Solt, who had had trouble with the maid service at his hotel, was fined $1 for taking his jampacked wastebasket down to the lobby and dumping it out on the clerk's desk. In San Diego, OPA investigators found a landlord charging roomers $2.50 a week for the privilege of using the front door. In Manhattan, department stores...
...Newport for genteel whoop-de-do. Boston newspapers had counted the couple's luggage, duly reported 31 pieces. For that, the Duchess gave interviewers a lecture, called it all "most extraordinary," pointed out that the 31 pieces were not just for herself and husband but also a maid, a valet and a secretary. Wrote Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham: "Possibly I'm stupid but it seems to me that this makes it all incredibly worse-five people and all this culch loading up a common carrier in times such as these just to call upon an ailing aunt...
...apartment house with maid service was ordered to change linen twice weekly, since the Government considered one weekly change not enough...
Room inspections have begun and will continue. The standards are seemingly attainable and reasonable. A degree of orderliness is required. Since maid service is provided for the ordinary routine, officers will be mainly responsible only for the administrative details of keeping desks, dressers, and personal gear shipshape. Similarly with personal inspections. Laundry complications will be considered. In short, look human...
...further Christine's career he steals the master key of the opera house, puts a Mickey Finn into Christine's rival's drink, sends poison-pen letters, strangles a soprano and her maid, saws a huge chandelier from its chain during the performance of an opera in which Christine's rival is singing. The hard-pressed Surete (French FBI) ultimately has to call on Composer Franz Liszt (German Shakespearian Actor Fritz Leiber) to aid them in bagging the cagey Phantom...