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...make good in Hollywood, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Anne Baxter has given up things to get ahead. She sacrificed her chestnut hair to become a striking martini blonde; she swallowed her pride and smoked cigars at the suggestion of her publicity man; she betrayed a family secret by feeding a columnist the story that her grandfather, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, wore only a bright red sash on his wedding night. Last week, after six years of marriage, she filed for a divorce from Actor John Hodiak. Grounds: incompatibility...
...Japan "and probably Korea, since he'll be that close." The visit will be made "as a private citizen." The Navy posted its list of reserve lieutenant commanders who are eligible for promotion. Among those who may get to add the new half-stripe: Veep-elect Richard Nixon, Columnist Walter Winchell, former Tennis Champ Helen Jacobs, and Pennsylvania's Congressman James G. Fulton...
...feud between the New York Post and Columnist Walter Winchell last week moved from the news columns into the courts. The Post and Editor James A. Wechsler filed libel suits for $1,525,000 against Winchell and the Hearst Corp., his radio-TV sponsor (Gruen Watch Co.), and American Broadcasting Co. Said the Post: in his columns and on his radio-TV programs, Winchell has been engaged in "journalistic gangsterism . . . [He has] spread the impression that the Post and its editors are disloyal to the United States and support and defend the Communist Party and C.P. figures convicted of conspiracy...
SEPTEMBER-Typo. In Philadelphia, when Inquirer Columnist Frank Brookhouser reported that Hubert B. Wolfeschlegelsteinhasenbergerdorff had registered to vote in the November elections, Hubert wrote in to say that his name was Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff...
...least partly because of his own experiences as a TIME cover subject (Nov. 6, 1950). "For years I felt very badly that TIME had been doing covers of Joe DiMaggio, Churchill, Eisenhower, but not me. A couple of years ago, I was in Sardi's and [Columnist] Leonard Lyons stopped by my table. He said: 'You ought to be on the cover of TIME.' I agreed that he was inspired. So he dragged me right over to [TIME Senior Editor] Joe Purtell, who was in the room at the time, and said: 'Capp ought...