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...watch a fireman hustling up a ladder with a steaming pot of coffee for his water-soaked comrades in the upper floors. That sight gave Aaron Meier Frank an idea. He would give Portland an elaborately equipped "disaster wagon." Mr. Frank, a lively sportsman of 48 and benevolent scion of oldtime Portland merchants, is president of Portland's huge Meier & Frank department store...
Otto Struve has seen more of life than most stargazers. Scion of a distinguished line of European astronomers, he was born in Kharkov, Russia, where his ancestors had settled after emigrating from Germany. He studied astronomy at Kharkov's university, served in the Russian Army in the World War, fought on the Turkish front. He fought with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks, fled to Constantinople after the White Russian collapse. While hiding in a coal bunker he found a wad of Imperial Russian banknotes which would have made him rich a few years before but were then worthless...
Married. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 30, onetime husband of Cinemactress Joan Crawford; and Mary Lee Epling Hartford, 28, onetime wife of Chain-Store Scion (A & P) George Huntington Hartford; in Westwood. Calif. Best man: Douglas Fairbanks...
Married. Tyrone Power Jr., 24, sleek cinemacting scion of an Anglo-Irish stage family; and Annabella, 26-year-old French cinemactress (real name: Suzanne Georgette Charpentier) ; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Paris publisher, blonde, pert Annabella got her cinema name and fame as a protégéé of French Director René Clair. Once-widowed, once-divorced Annabella and Bachelor Power became friends last year during the filming of Suez...
Unlike these three old-fashioned rousers, Royal Regiment, by Gilbert Frankau (Dutton, $2.50), is as modern as gas masks for babies. Laid in 1936-37, it tells what happens when Major "Rusty" Rockingham, bachelor scion of an aristocratic British military family, falls in love with the dazzling American wife of his hardbitten colonel. Nothing happens: at the last moment both Rockingham and Camilla renounce their honorable passion for the greater honor of Empire. The Wally Simpson case, which breaks simultaneously, makes a well-pointed contrast...