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...Died. Dinah Washington, 39, jazz singer, an ebullient Chicago Negro who in two decades of nightclub and record performances earned up to $150,000 a year (best-known number: What a Difference a Day Makes), and a title from her fans as "Queen of the Blues"; of unknown causes, while watching television with her seventh husband, Detroit Lions' Halfback Dick ("Night Train") Lane: in Detroit...
Reedy Renditions. When her subjects are well marinated, Hypnoteuse Collins sets them to dancing, singing, acting or mimicking one another. She convinced Actress Jill St. John that she was Dinah Shore and launched her into a reedy rendition of See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet. At Hypnoteuse Collins' suggestion, Lloyd Bridges went swimming through the audience with a plastic lung on his back. She suggested to Steve Allen that he was viewing one of the saddest movies ever filmed-and watched with approval while her subject dissolved soggily into tears. In one more practical demonstration...
...Married. Dinah Washington, 38, jazz record queen (What a Difference a Day Makes); and Dick ("Night Train") Lane, 35, durable defensive halfback for the Detroit Lions; he for the second time, she for the seventh; in Las Vegas...
...little pepper to the salad by mentioning that in recent years the South was fertile enough to produce a good crop of writers: Wolfe, Faulkner, Harper Lee and Margaret Mitchell, plus a Barkley, Dean Rusk, Richard Russell, Byrd, Hodges, Helen Keller, Billy Graham and Dinah Shore, plus the core of the space program for good measure...
...Married. Dinah Shore, 46, TV's tiptop thrush; and Maurice Fabian Smith, 41, building contractor; both for the second time; in Redlands, Calif., two days after her divorce from Actor George Montgomery became final...