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...President of the U. S., once marveled to a friend: "I have to pinch myself to be sure I am not dreaming. Think of it, a son of an Iowa harness maker in the Cabinet." Harry Hopkins said then that he had entered the Cabinet on a "shoe string" and would go out the same way. Last week came the shoestring marked...
...automobiles, young Chrysler, unlike young Vanderbilt, Labrot and Brady, was never taken to race tracks when he was a kid. A bookworm and esthete, he dabbled in book publishing and other arty ventures while still in his teens. Suddenly, last summer, he got the urge to own a string of race horses, went to Saratoga, bought nine yearlings, hired Oldtimer Henry McDaniel to train them. What young Chrysler lacked in turf knowledge, he began to pick up from old Uncle Henry, who in his 73 years has trained horses for Lucky Baldwin, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Joseph Widener and many another...
...through with the nuptials until all references to dentures were eliminated from the ceremony. Eventually she had her way. The course of television love met further obstacles. Before the bride arrived at the studio altar, in came Fan Dancer Faith Bacon. Clad in a brassiere and a G-string, with feathers in her hair and on her heels, Miss Bacon insisted, wedding or no wedding, that she was going to do her uninhibited stuff before the television camera. In honor of the occasion, Miss Bacon offered to put on a fur neckpiece, was enraged when Don Lee officials rejected...
...Pillsbury Flour Co. net for fiscal year ending May 31 dropped 56% to $990,914. 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.'s six-month net fell from $2,325,526 to a thin $117,213 (because of heavy foreign losses, an $800.000 reserve set up against them and a string of unlucky pictures...
...shapely stripper played her first legitimate role rather solemnly, moved many a simple miner with her earnest emoting. But more important than Miss Corio's acting was her success in combining drama with louse opera: she worked from conventional street dress in the first act to a G-string in the third...