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...pursuit of Rita Hayworth and her debt-ridden husband. Crooner Dick Haymes, by Dick's creditors began to resemble the chase sequence in a grade B western. Earlier this month Dick and Rita barricaded themselves in a Manhattan ho tel suite, while outside two deputy sheriffs waited to serve Dick with an alimony arrears warrant sworn out by his second wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru. Last week in Greenwich, Conn., more sheriff's men, took up a vigil in the 14-room furnished mansion Haymes had rented. This time, Rita and groom were charged by their landlord with being...
Wasted Season. Washington began to be suspicious of this when the French forces failed to take advantage of new U.S. supplies and good weather to launch a major offensive against Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh's forces. Recently the suspicions were confirmed when the French sent an S O S asking for a U.S. commander in Indo-China, along with U.S. air power and ground troops. Immediately the Indo-China problem flew to the top of the agenda of the National Security Council. Last week the President appointed an NSC subcommittee, consisting of Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell...
...charm could procure for him. His supposed mother occasionally paid him a sum that was either conscience money or silence money. And, among other, Ann Oldfield, the most beautiful actress of the time, gave him an annual allowance. Well aware that political favor was all important for his subsistence, ho made no qualms about forgetting his Tory sentiments, and often curried the favor of a potential Whig patron, at the negligible expense of self respect...
...Christmas time, the Viet Minh radio announced that 300 prisoners would be released as a token of the Communists' devotion to world peace. Last week the first batch of 109, wearing safe-conduct insignia reading Hochiminh Muon Nam" (One thousand years for Ho Chi Minh), arrived at a French strong point on the Red River delta perimeter. Among them was 24-year-old Jean Leriche, a civilian cameraman attached to the French army, who was captured by the Communists in November...
...Conclusion. For the past three weeks, Communist capitals of Europe and Asia have been subjected to stereotyped peace rallies. Moscow, Peking and Ho have said the war could be ended by negotiation. French Premier Laniel is on record that "the French government does not consider the Indo-Chinese problem as a matter which must necessarily be settled militarily." But Ho is demanding that France 1) recognize his government and get out of Indo-China, 2) exclude Bao Dai's Vietnamese nationalists from the peace talks, 3) make the first formal move to sue for peace. All this, coupled with...