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...Gertrude Lawrence had nearly eight years of it, in her teens, before she had a London engagement. When she got a call from the London revue producer, Andre Chariot, Gertie sneaked her clothes from the theatre where she was playing, borrowed the fare to London, and landed a three-year contract with Chariot starting at $16 a week. Shortly afterwards she married a showman named Francis Xavier Gordon-Howley who, as the justice remarked at the divorce proceedings several years later, seemed to have intended to spend the rest of his life living on her income...
...permission to quarter 6,000 men at specified bases in Tonkin Protectorate, was building permanent barracks for 25,000 near the capital, Hanoï. Three first-class airdromes, one with a concrete runway to handle the heaviest bombers, were being constructed. It was an open secret that once her northern base was completed, Japan intended to move south, probably in March or April. Japanese officers and merchants were securing houses in Hanoï on three-year leases "in the name of the Emperor" and forbidding Frenchmen to use the sidewalk in front of them. Even as Indo-China fought Thailand...
Brown, a former Notre Dame football and basketball star, is 25 years old. He gained All-America honors with the Fighting Irish in 1938 and played at end in the 1939 All-Star Professional game in Chicago. He was a three-year letterman in both basketball and football, captaining the cage squad...
...Supreme Court of the United States will judge the final argument in the Ames Competition at the Law School, Tuesday evening, January 21, in which two groups of third-year student lawyers compete for the highest honor awarded in the moot court arguments, after eliminations conducted over a three-year period...
...Industrial Consultant George Harrison Houston, onetime president of Wright Aeronautical Corp. and Baldwin Locomotive Works, longtime crusader against the New Deal. The syndicate relied heavily on a three-year study of Mexican potentialities which his firm recently completed...