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...years ago Monica Dickens, beauteous, 23-year-old great-granddaughter of class-conscious Charles Dickens, went to work as a cook to get material for a book on belowstairs life. President Cass Canfield of Harper & Bros, announced he had bought the book (One Pair of Hands), gaffed: "She has an easy pen and the same interest in the lower half of the people that Dickens was so well known...
...ship in the air. It was no two-bit order, but it was not big enough to give pleasure to Glenn Luther Martin. He had hoped to fill the $15,000,000 bomber order which the War Department simultaneously placed with his big competitor, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif. But the fact that he did not get the big order was not even a serious setback to Glenn Martin today. His $10,000.000 plant outside Baltimore had just delivered 117 B10 bombers to The Netherlands, was working on a ten-million dollar order for new gull-winged flying...
Also he entered a 167, fitted with U. S. instruments and equipped for Air Corps tactical missions, in the Army's attack-bomber competition. Douglas, which has also been one of the big Army contractors, had lost its entry when it started the Senate asking questions: at Santa Monica Test Pilot Johnny Cable cracked up the new Douglas ship, with a French observer aboard, and was killed. Re-entering the competition late, Douglas turned up with a slicked-up job, reputedly with a speed above 400 miles an hour, and, in a Garrison finish, last week took first money...
...Santa Monica, Calif...
...Hearst was with Marion Davies, at her Santa Monica Beach house. The Hearst who mortgaged San Simeon to get $600,000 for spending money has for the past two years been employed as editorial director of his own newspapers, and last year his salary from the Hearst Consolidated papers was cut from $500,000 to $100,000. No longer ruler of the empire he built, Hearst has only two desires concerning it: 1) to have some of it survive him; 2) to keep his job. Nearing 76, the man who was the most spectacular publisher and spendthrift of his time...