People, Jan. 8, 1940

To radioactive Orson Welles, who recently grew a Falstaffian beard, Cinemactor Errol Flynn's Christmas gift was a ham with beard attached.

Bequeathed to Cinemactress Mae West by the late Oscar Monroe Abbott, a Chicago businessman, were a diamond and pearl stickpin, "my sincere good wishes and a cordial invitation to kum up and see muh some time."

Ellis Island announced that General Walter Krivitsky, ex-Shmelka Ginsberg, onetime member of the Soviet Military Intelligence, who told tales all over the Saturday Evening Post and Dies Committee, had left the U. S. for parts undivulged. Reason: his visitor's permit for the U. S. would have...

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