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At a dinner of the Hollywood chapter of the National Secretaries Association, Guest Speaker Marie (My Friend Irma) Wilson warmed her audience by suggesting the organization of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Secretaries. Among her targets: "the boss who spills all his domestic problems to you"; the Mumbler "who dictates like he's wearing two sets of false teeth"; the Eager Beaver "who starts dictating before his secretary gets in the room." Concluded Actress Wilson, who once played a cinema secretary: "Secretaries should have the right to walk around the office in stocking feet after dancing all night; they should be allowed to wear curlers in their hair . . . and the boss should supply fresh gum."
A Los Angeles federal jury listened to a local sports promoter, Larry Rummans, charge Houston's millionaire Oilman Glenn McCarthy with kicking him in the face and neck, welching on a $1,500 football bet, and failing to pay for services rendered in promoting a 1949 charity football game. Damage due, he argued, came to $113,000. The jury figured it was somewhat less, ordered McCarthy to pay $5,000.