Word: monica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bedizened with the insignia of a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a police captain's badge good in Santa Monica, Calif., Comedienne Gracie Fields arrived for a vacation in the U. S. after patriotically entertaining Tommies at the front. For Manhattan ship newsmen she sang this extra verse of her famous song, The Biggest Aspidistra* in the World: They're going to string old Hitler From the very highest branch Of the biggest aspidistra in the world...
...square-chinned, 46-year-old Lawrence Doane Bell of Bell Aircraft, the Airacobra is a thesis in an aeronautics course which began 28 years ago. He left high school in Santa Monica, Calif, to become a mechanic for famed Lincoln Beachey-the "greatest flier" in many a pilot's lexicon-and for his own big brother, Grover Bell. Next year death came to Grover Bell in a crash, and discouraged Larry left the game. But by the time Beachey was killed in 1915 Larry Bell was back as a mechanic for Early-Bird Glenn L. Martin (whose firm...
...past six months his home has been a secluded wooden cottage in Pacific Palisades, overlooking Santa Monica. With his wife and niece he lives very quietly, takes long walks-sometimes 20 miles-in the Santa Monica hills. The only movie people he sees much of are Ronald Colman, Anita Loos, Directors Cukor and Mamoulian, and Charlie Chaplin, "an old and good friend." Another friend he sees fairly often is Bertrand Russell, now a professor at U. C. L. A. Recently he gave a picnic; the guests were Russell and Garbo...