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...Paris, Madame Jolie Gabor, 53, glamorous mother of glamorous Eva, Magda and Zsa-Zsa, showed surprise that people make so much about their divorces. "We're four girls, and there have only been eight divorces. Is that so much?" Confided she to the Herald Tribune's Columnist Art Buchwald: "We are never angry with our former husbands. We have always been on wonderful terms with all of them. All of them would remarry us if we wanted them...
...roaders, McKay irritated extremists on both political sidewalks. The left-wing Americans for Democratic Action condemned the new program as "an ill-concealed giveaway of resources which belong to all the people," and the Fair Dealing New York Post saw "special interests . . . winning the battle of the Potomac." Columnist David Lawrence, an arch-Republican, complained that "the statement reaffirms more of the New Deal than the Old Deal...
...Robert Carney was entitled to live in a huge, turreted barn at the Naval Observatory, next door to the British Embassy, but he nursed a dark suspicion that the higher-ranking Radford might grab it first. To forestall an invasion, Carney leaked a strategic news item to a society columnist, who reported that "Admiral Carney says he expects to move into the admiral's house on Observatory Hill." Ridgway told the same columnist he intended to take over the Bradley house. Having lost the ball, Radford moved in temporarily with his old friend, Marine Commandant Lem Shepherd...
Samuel Wainer, a shrewd, nimble ex-political reporter, is the man who added new razzle-dazzle to Brazilian journalism. Two years ago, Sammy was just a columnist for wealthy Press Lord Assis ("Chato") Chateaubriand (TIME, June 8). But when Sammy came out for ex-Dictator Getulio Vargas in the last presidential election, Chato wired him: "I am buying ice for your hot head." Vargas won, and nicknamed Wainer "The Prophet." Money poured in from pro-Vargas industrialists and from the Vargas-controlled Bank of Brazil (a reputed $18 million) to buy Wainer a plant and start a new, pro-Vargas...
...married, although Baker was no longer a broker but a corporal in the U.S. Army. When Tomorrow the World closed, Shirley camp-followed her husband through the South until 1945, then returned to Manhattan for her first musical, Hollywood Pinafore, in which she played the part of a gossip columnist called Louhedda Hopsons. During the war years, Shirley, who is an expert dancer, cut many a rug at the Stage Door Canteen...