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Blonde Veronica Lake (Mrs. John Detlie), mother of a 22-month-old girl, tripped over a studio cable, was rushed to a Hollywood hospital. Doctors hoped that blood transfusions would forestall premature birth of her August baby.
Week after the beginning of her Manhattan vacation, heart-faced Claudette Colbert took her sinus sniffles to a hospital, rested under the care of her doctor husband, Lieut. Commander Joel Pressman.
Academic Welcome
Quiet, well-dressed Thomas Sovereign Gates, 16th President of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner, welcomed students at the beginning of the new college year. As quoted by the New York Times, he offered his charges a ripe, fallacious enthymeme. Said he: "Twice isolationism has failed and now we must ask ourselves whether it will save us a third time."