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This kind of impudent guff pours out of station CKLW (Detroit-Windsor) for no less than three and a half hours six mornings a week (Mon. through Sat., 6-9:30 a.m., E.W.T.). Through some quirk of the radio waves, surprised U.S. Army pilots on the New Guinea run pick it up, write ardent fan letters. Hosts of Detroiters are equally enthusiastic about The Early Morning Frolic and the pair of wacky mimics who operate...
Among the Canteen's visitors have been Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duchess of Windsor (same evening), Lord & Lady Halifax, Herbert Hoover. Among its 300 entertainers each week have been Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Grace Moore, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman. Other tidbits...
Boston's E. W. ("Dad") Liberty, in the skin game for 45 years, claims he had the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, among his estimated 65,000 clients. Much of Dad's recent work has been changing Japanese ladies into Chinese...
People get fat from overeating not from glands. This blunt statement was made last week in the leading U.S. gland journal (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology) by Stanford University's Dr. Windsor Cooper Cutting. As cautious as the next doctor, Dr. Cutting offered no pat explanation of why people overeat. Wrote he: "Certainly the girl disappointed in love may take to candy, or a mother may teach her child to stuff himself, but no such obvious cause is present ... in most obese persons." Dr. Cutting suggested that overeating may be caused by "some psychologic drive which requires satiation...
When Tillet was head of Bristol's potent Dockers' Union he met young Ernest Bevin (now Minister of Labor), gave him his first union job and became the strongest influence in his life. After the abdication of his good friend the Duke of Windsor he said: "I regret that that great little gentleman did not let fly ... and tell us just what the bishops and politicians, who hounded him from public life, were pressing...