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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Then the Nazis came to Rumania and Poland's late leaders were herded into a concentration camp at Dragoslav. Last week the Marshal again justified his nickname when he and a number of lesser officers executed a mass escape from their camp and apparently from Rumania. The Gestapo, Nazi Army, Iron Guard and Rumanian police launched a nationwide manhunt, but found no trace of the nimble one. Reports from Budapest said he was aboard a steamer bound for Turkey...
Traditionally, divas are prey to harmless superstitions. Lily Pons, born with a caul on a Friday the 13th, counts 13 her lucky number. She asks for room 1313 in hotels, buys souvenirs (like South American birds) by the baker's dozen; her house in Silvermine, Conn. bears the street number 13. So, by her and Kosty's account, she held out for 13 proposals of marriage, then straightway accepted. They were married in June...
This week, when Santa Anita and Golden Gate ring up the curtain on California's winter racing season, every stall will be filled. Santa Anita's purses will be larger (averaging $20,000 a day), will therefore attract more high-grade horses. But an increasing number of California turfmen complain that Santa Anita has snubbed their homebreds to make room for big-name Eastern stables. For them, Golden Gate will be a horseman's heaven...
...upped its spot announcement budget from $100 to $3,500 a week, introduced the imperishable jingles with which Gaston now assaults the ether. Since Gaston started, Chateau Martin has sold 15,000,000 quarts of wine, sent a top-hatted, bewhiskered stooge wandering around Manhattan to publicize his opposite number...
Before Gaston took to poesy and song, he was played by a number of radio actors...