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Linda Darnell, who in six years of Hollywood fame has played many svelte sophisticates (Summer Storm, Daytime Wife), finally reached 21. Hearing that the Hays office had been killing her pin-up pictures, she remarked: "That's one difference being 21 makes. I don't believe they've paid attention to me before...
...These pin-up rates for transatlantic service enlivened the continuing Civil Aeronautics Board hearings for North Atlantic route certificates. At the same time these glib rate-cutting promises were committing airlines to start their postwar services at rates as low as 3½? a mile-lower than some experts thought could be achieved for three or four years. If transatlantic traffic fails to come up to the airlines' optimistic expectations, operating costs might prove difficult to cover...
...Have and Have Not, Casablanca), announced that he had separated from his wife, ex-Cinemactress Mayo Methot, Bogart, who nicknamed his wife (also his yacht) "Sluggy" and bragged about their many private and public fights in six years of marriage (on their fifth anniversary, he gave Sluggy a rolling pin), kept mum about the reasons. Hollywood newshawks pointed out that Methot was for Dewey, Bogart for Roosevelt...
After then, we never knew when the roads would be empty or full. Some [troops] stayed twelve hours, others two weeks, others three days; we just didn't know. The first crowd was a shock. They were untidy, insolent; their "pin-ups," which they plastered all over their lorries and guns, were pretty hot, and the remarks painted underneath, and the names of lorries, gave offense. We thought "So this is the American Army." The next batch was duly snubbed, poor fellows, and although they were well-behaved we refused to thaw. The third batch was a fine example...
...down the middle. But his magic touch lies with the irons. He regulates his swing in clocklike fashion, using the same amount of punch each time, getting different distance by lengthening or shortening his backswing. Once he knows the range, he can drop ball after ball dead on the pin. (He could equip a caddy with a baseball glove and pitch iron shots to him on the first bounce.) His one weakness is with the putter. He is inclined to stroke a short putt too hard, and is more likely to sink a 20-footer than a three-footer...