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...white-brick, Spanish-style home near Santa Monica he wakes every morning at exactly 7:30 a.m. He has no alarm clock. Beside his bed, as poets have paper & pencil on which to catch a night thought, he has an adding machine on which he can punch out his own mathematical visions. At 8 o'clock he has his invariable breakfast of one egg, one piece of white toast, one cup of black coffee. Shortly before 9, he walks to his four-car garage, steps into his 1941 black Lincoln Zephyr, swings around a fishpond in his front yard...
When war clouds rolled up in 1939, Douglas was a middling-sized company with plants at Santa Monica and El Segundo. But he had a big-company backlog of $69,000,000. Cautious Donald Douglas did not want to grow any bigger and did not intend to. All this planemaking interfered with his engineer's urge to design planes. But the Army changed his mind...
Married. Orson Welles, 28, showman; and Rita Hayworth, 24, cinemalulu; each for the second time; three months after Rita announced that she would marry Coast Guardsman Victor Mature after the war; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sleight-of-handed Welles, who at the ceremony could not get the ring out of its box, had featured his bride in his Hollywood magic show (TIME, Aug. 16). Said Mature: "Apparently the way to a girl's heart is to saw her in half...
Even on vacation, California's Governor Earl Warren gained in political stature last week. He displayed himself, with his wife and four of his six children on the beach at Santa Monica, as one of the few top-flight U.S. politicos who is not a hilarious figure in swimming trunks...
Married. Greer Garson, 31, red-haired cinemactress who got 1942's Academy Award; and U.S.N.R. Lieut. Richard Ney, 29, peacetime cinemactor; each for the second time; in Santa Monica, Calif. In Mrs. Miniver...