European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse Me peekaboo girl plays waiting game booming the stars and stripes tog 5 Lents All Shook up f . Suburb Calif. A some residents of this los Angeles like they re silting on a powder Keg. Marsh rho forced up through the Earth by recent Rains in Small Iweta Over an area covering several Square by an draw Meisels new York f a remember Veronica Lake the peekaboo look girl of the 19403? today she Waits on tables and serves As a part time hostess inthe cocktail lounge of a Manhattan i hotel. Once one of Hollywood s most glittering stars she appeared i dozens of films and her face and figure were featured in scores of Magu Ines and newspapers. Today two decades and three he Shancks later she lives at the Martha Washington hotel for women and works for tips and Hermen is at the colonnade room j downstairs. Miss Lake now Rocs by the name of Connie Detoth. Connie is her real first name and Detoth is the name of her second husband film director Andrew Detoth. She was divorced about iwo years ago from her third husband music publisher Jjoseph a. Mccarthy. 1 i full swept Hack she looks older now of course and her Long Blond hair once i combed so Htit in fell Over he right Eye in y show business Trimle Murk is swept Bock. But she is still in at Truran e woman and rec-1 Rokni Able us the former stir. A i s a Connie moved into he hotel i out five months go after living for n Lime with friends. Most o the tenants Are a Murrit a career women or Stu dents or widows. The former actress who was awarded 5 five trapped in the top floor apr let it building in a fire Mother mrs. Elhel Hicks two other children aged 5 reached a ledge and item card by firemen. The dead ranged in age from two i the father us escaped. Shopper Dies store Blaze swill explosion a have been reported but no injuries. A housewife mrs. Betty Erick son brought the matter to & head by summoning newsmen to take a look. She stuck a length of pipe in the ground and ignited the fumes coming up through it. Three week ago she said she was practically blown out of bed when the Pilot Light of her floor Furnace ignited an accumulation of Gas under her Home. Fire chief William Hurt Al said his men investigated and found several jets of flame coming from the ground near the Furnace. A soon As we extinguished them they flashed up again he suld. The Erickson evacuated ind we chopped holes in the floor for ventilation until the concentration of Gas in a nearby Barber shop Frunk Taylor said he touched off a minor explosion two weeks ago when he miss Anderson s the Star but atty. Gen. Gets a laugh Ohio a a seven fire in the Niles business i destroyed three stores and woman shopper pc Dorothy Aulin. 67. Of Niles victim of the fire which in a clothing store. Believed a Nuge would title hundreds of thousands we trapped on the of the 58-year-old h. " co. Store when Dames a Stock room on the Dies in chair winning 12 stays a Vincent Colucci lived 13 clays of execution it was Marian Ander Sun s concert but Robert f. Kennedy turned the Lime Light on his blushing wife and Al most stole the show. Some 800 dignitaries had settled into their seats at the state department auditorium for the third in a series of Cabinet concert when the attorney general strode out on the stage to introduce the famed contralto. Miss Anderson has had a very traumatic experience today sul Kennedy. She tells me my wife picked her up today and insist Don sinking to her in the car. Fortunately she has recovered from it out in the audience mrs. Ken Nedy reddened As she became the enter of attraction and burled her face in her hands before joining inthe laughter. Then Kennedy became serious find turned to the business at hand miss Anderson. He recalled Herka Ster sunday concert at the Len i Oln memorial in 1939 when 75,000 persons gathered to hear her. That was when the daughters of the american revolution refused to let miss Anderson daughter of a negro Coal and iceman sing in Constitution Hall. Filet from president then Kennedy turned the is mho Over to miss Anderson who Sung a concert of Handel. Earlier in the Day she exchanged with the president at the White House. She gave him u rec i Ord album of her spirituals and he presented her with an inauguration medal. If it s too Large to Wear on a Churm Bracelet i m going to put it on a Chain around my she told reporters. A 200-Pound Date. He tripped and i was the nearest piece of from time to time somebody would come Over and Ait Down with the former Star. She d talk for a few minutes then turn away. And the person would leave. At one Point a Man sat Down at the Booth and asked her if she d be interested in a part in a play. Connie changed the subject. Later she said. Everybody wants to manage me. I can t Stan being managed Joe Rauti owner of the Colon Nade lounge cume Over and said there was a Call for her from Man connected with a television show. Please she said i just Don t feel like talking Rauti shrugged h i s shoulders and walked s a Good girl he later told a reporter but she s had a bad time. Did you know she has three kids oldest one s a girl of 20. Talks about them nil the some nights when the television set in the cocktail lounge is turned on Connie Detoth can see Veron Ica Lake in an old movie. There were three of them telecast locally a few Days ago Star spangled rhythm Blue Dahlia and sul Livan s the waitress watched the Glam or girl on the screen for a while. Then she turned away and sold i Don t believe anybody was Ever that but Glenn did t orbit in time spacemen and a first lady make who s who9 new Yowk a there Are &800 new listings in the latest who s who in America among them Alan b. Shepard or. And Virgil l Grossom but not John or. The now most famous astronaut and first american to orbit the Earth just did t make his epochal flight before the biennial edition of the roster of famous or important americans went to press. Among those who did become prominent in time for the new edition were 19-year-old actor Brandon Dewilde the youngest person in the Book a 33-Yeur-Oldgovernor, f. Buy Keyser or. Of Vermont a 28-year-old corporation president William Wrigley of the cd Colne gum firm and a 32-year old housewife Jacqueline Lee Bou vier Kennedy. The first lady s listing is Brief Only 11 lines. But then her husband took Only 18 lines just a Little better than the space allowed to the Man he Defeated for the presidency. Richard m. Nixon 15 lines and nowhere near the space allowed to the Man he Defeated for the democratic nomination Adial e. Stevenson 34 lines. But they Are Alt made to look like bikers in the Fine print by gentleman who designs geodesic domes Richard Buckminster Ful Ler. His biography from his Start is an apprentice steam fitter occupies 97 lines. At the other end of the age spectrum from Young Dewilde is the Rev. Arthur Judson Brown one time presbyterian Leader. Now 105, he is the oldest person listed in the volume As he has been through Thi previous five editions. Who s who s new listings give the up and coming Young Ameri can some clues to where he go if he wants the Best Chance at becoming an important personage. Of the 8,800 new listings. New York City is the address of 1,429, there ure 928 new listings for Washington d.c., and 401 for Chi Cago. Los Angeles san Francisco Boa ton Detroit Cleveland. Philadel phia and Pittsburgh All got More than 100 new listings. The first who s who in Amer Ica published in 1899. Had 827pages and 8,602 biographical sketches. The new one has 3,588 pages and56,264 sketches. But the editors Are not suddenly becoming less demanding in their qualifications for prominence. They say that without any con scotus Effort the new edition maintains about the same ratio to population they have maintained for Many years three out of 10,000,
