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...Town, moved directly from that to The Howards, ended up earning $500 a week. Martha once occupied a small Manhattan apartment with four other girls who selected their guests according to "the length of cigaret butts they would leave." She now lives in a small house with a pint-sized swimming pool in Beverly Hills, employs a man & wife to run her household, drives her Buick convertible coupe herself, dresses sloppily, avoids nightclubs. Frank Lloyd observed: "I haven't had an actress like Martha Scott since Pauline Frederick. They are damn few and far between...
...marred only by the fact that each was married to someone else, finally married each other last week (see p. 38). Mickey Rooney received a new contract from his studio allowing him $100 a week for pin money, $900 for living expenses, $1,000 for his old age. Pint-sized Carl Laemmle Jr. found his stretching exercises had added an inch to his height. Orson Welles continued directing his film Citizen Kane from a wheel chair after falling down stairs and cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey, had to take...
First dealings of Adman Maxon and his new client occurred 25 years ago. At that time young Maxon was proprietor of a lunch wagon outside the Ford plant in Highland Park. One of his best pint-of-milk customers was Henry Ford. After a try at pro football with a pickup team of former Carlisle Indians, Maxon spent a year as advertising manager of Detroit's R. H. Fyfe & Co. ("America's Largest Shoe Store"), then became assistant city editor of the old Detroit Journal. He was fired for palming off a phony story on the city editor...
...such a state the sun will be not much larger than the earth is now, and a pint of its substance will weigh...
Little old King Vittorio Emanuele III was pressed into service. This pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) King, who really prefers peace- and for whom the Italian people preserve filial affection, was strutted off in all his regimentals to some secret "zone of operations" where he proclaimed: "Soldiers of the land...