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...progressive man held palaver. The U.S. Navy's softspoken, sensitive Commodore Ben Wyatt might well have wondered why progress had to sacrifice this lovely coral atoll, instead of an empty wasteland, a dismal slum or a plaguesome Buchenwald. Bikini's tall, tawny Paramount Chief Juda, manor lord of 160 Christian islanders, took comfort in the will of Heaven...
Married. John Wayne (real name.: Marion Michael Morrison), 38, outstanding (6 ft. 2 in.) Hollywood Horse Operative; and Esperanza Baur, 24, to-the-manor-born Mexican cinemactress; both for the second time (she again to a Morrison, he again to a Latin American); in Long Beach, Calif...
...Author Waugh lives in an old Gloucestershire manor house with his (second) wife, and four children whom he affects to detest. He is a connoisseur of wines and cigars, wears a bowler, takes the air swinging an old-fashioned cane. He cannot drive a car, shuns the telephone, barely accepts a telegram. Sighs his go-ahead friend Randolph Churchill: "He becomes more old-fashioned . . . every day. His favorite novelist is Trollope. . . . He seeks to live in an oasis...
...Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., a mouse shut off the electricity. In Freeport, Ill., an owl jammed a high-tension transformer...
...beefy George Grosz for his The Survivor, a carefully painted war nightmare. Grosz, whose acid commentaries on World War I, and the social evils which followed in Germany, earned him international fame and the hatred of the Nazis, became a U.S. citizen in 1938, settled down in Douglas Manor, N.Y. to paint heavily larded nudes and Cape Cod sand dunes. When his old fears and disgusts overtake him, he is still a frightening artist...