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Married. Grade Fields, 54, durable British music-hall comedienne, who deliberately "tampered with the radio" because she liked the looks of the repairman; and Rumanian-born Abraham Boris Alperovici, 48, the radio repairman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Santo Stefano Church, near Gracie's Isle of Capri villa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...croon a little ditty ("I'm an old goat, but I'm so in love with him"). Then she surprised her guests with the announcement that she plans to marry again. Her third husband-to-be: a 48-year-old Bessarabian-born engineer and radio repairman named Alperovici, whom she calls simply "Honest Boris." "The only thing Boris cannot do," said Gracie, "is sing. We went for a walk this morning and he started singing a Bessarabian love song. I had to tell him to shut up." But, she added, "you should just see his chest. Talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Job | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

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