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Died. Charles Vidor, 58, Hungarian-born Hollywood director (The Swan, Hans Christian Anderson), who promoted Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford and other stars; of a heart attack; in Vienna...
...dignified Sunday Magazine, was a new, 16-page section that promised everything from history to sex-with four-color photography. The great stone face of Gary Cooper, garbed as a U.S. cavalryman (circa 1916) frowned from the cover, Vilma Banky and Marlene Dietrich appeared on pages 4 and 5, Rita Hayworth curved across pages...
...drilled near Robinson, started the heaviest land rush since Texas, and enriched themselves by $8,000,000. In West Texas in 1924, when up-and-down Benedum was close to going broke, he drilled in the shade of a rig that had been blessed in the name of Saint Rita, saint of the impossible. The impossible area was a desert of dunes and cactus, 50 miles from water. On his ninth try there, he struck it; oil came roaring...
...Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, a big chunk of the audience at a movie would rise in days past and bow toward the screen whenever Rita Hayworth appeared in a picture. Thus did Nairobi's Moslems pay their respects to the wife of Prince Aly Khan, whose father ruled their Ismaili sect. Asians in Africa are about 800,000 strong. While the white rulers have begrudgingly tolerated Africa's Asians, the blacks have become increasingly resentful of them. For a continent-wide report on the increasing number and growing problems of Asians in Africa, see FOREIGN NEWS. Between...
...changed Durango. Its economy is giddily inflated, from the rising business (up 20%) of merchants to the soaring price of good imported whisky and bad local women. The town's new taste of high life is even giddier. Producer Jim Hill adorned the place with his glittering wife, Rita Hayworth. Rugged Charles Bickford had his food flown in from a Hollywood gourmet shop, including 100 steaks for which there were no adequate freezing facilities...