People: People, Jul. 10, 1944

Won Over

Princess Alexandra, seven-year-old daughter of the widowed Duchess of Kent, was royally shy and reserved with a group of U.S. Army men visiting her and her grandmother, Queen Mary—until Captain Stuart A. Safdi won her over with a package of gum.

Flight Officer Jackie Coogan, back in home-town Hollywood after a tour of combat duty with the Army Air Commandos in India, cashed in on a request by letter for a date: he had fallen for a pin-up picture of eye-filling Starlet Ramsay Ames.

Services Rendered

Milton Snavely Hershey, 86-year-old chocolate king, was...

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