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...California court granted Dr. Peter Lindstrom an uncontested divorce from Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman nine months after she had gotten her Mexican mailorder divorce in order to marry Director Roberto Rossellini. Said Ingrid in Paris: "I'm happy that it's finally over." She added that she might be interested in making more movies, having more children. "You know how these Italian families are, ten or twelve ... I don't think I'll have that many, though...
...Democratic renomination without trying. He is considered an odds-on favorite to defeat earnest Republican George Marshall, an ex-district judge, despite what Guy Gabrielson said. As Pat drove or flew from one Nevada town to another, it was easy to see why. He knew, and had gotten jobs, furloughs or information for, hundreds of the people he shook hands with. "How," asked one Nevada editor, "can you beat a man like that...
With this assured, Tammany would have had only to aim its squat, greying Candidate Ferdinand Pecora in the right direction, let go of his ankles and watch him go bobbing off to glory. The Republican challenger, Edward Corsi, had a good Italian name too, and had gotten headlines for his welfare and labor work. But 68-year-old Justice Pecora was remembered as the fearless Government counsel of the senatorial investigation of Wall Street in 1933, which not only led to the Securities & Exchange Commission but produced a deathless picture of J.P. Morgan cuddling a midget...
Walk Softly, Stranger (RKO Radio) tells an occasionally moving love story of two cripples, one moral, the other physical. Gambler Joseph Gotten arrives in small town Ashton, Ohio to establish a hideout and a new identity in preparation for holding up a New York gangster. He goes to work in the local factory and falls in love with the manufacturer's daughter (Valli), who has been confined to a wheelchair by a skiing accident. The stickup comes off on schedule, but when Cotten's Co-Thief Paul Stewart arrives in Ashton, the New York gunmen...
...drums, bass fiddle and a "pleasant" string quartet behind him ("You can die in a cocktail lounge with a trio"), he showed he could just about play the pants off any pianist in town. He was a hit, all right. Like many another jazz musician, Joe, whose face has gotten harder at 33, finds that good playing is no longer enough for tapping the big money. But he says, "Playing the piano is very important to me. While I'm playing I have less trouble making up my mind whether I'm happy...