People, Apr. 22, 1940

Heckled at the annual meeting about Republic Steel's labor policies, Chairman Tom Mercer Girdler retorted to a young woman stockholder: "Some of my best friends are in organized labor."

To autograph one copy of Gone With the Wind, Cinemactress Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara, had to sign her name 30 times. Reason: it was printed in Braille, filled 4,110 pages, 30 volumes.

Found caddying for a living on Miami Beach's municipal golf course was Cyril Walker, onetime U. S. Open champion, who in Detroit in 1924 beat Bobby Jones for the title. Forty-eight, reduced...

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