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...Rita Hayworth, the fourth bride of Crooner Dick Haymes, was not quite right when she cried that her fourth groom was being "torn apart and crucified." Actually, like a sinewy Thanksgiving turkey, Dick was just being carved many ways. His second wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru, collected $2,650 for overdue support of their three children, claimed that Dick owed her $29,087 more. Internal revenuers were grabbing half of Dick's salary for unpaid income taxes; his agent continued to get the customary 10% slice; his creditors were cut in for their regular 20%. Dick was reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

What's the idea wasting a whole page on the likes of Rita and Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Your article about Rita's wedding should be written in stone to show our posterity your high skill of journalism-yet also the decadence of our present moral life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Soapman McElroy should sign Dick & Rita up real quick for a new soap opera. Their story is a natural and has wonderful possibilities. Will Dick be deported? If so, will Rita follow him? Tune in tomorrow for the next thrilling episode of Yasmin's Other Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...lash naked women to tanks, destroy works of art, try to outdo their late conquerors. But like all occupiers, they soon find that their lives have been bound up with those of the occupied. Two hussars, Sanders and Saint-Anne, finally surrender unconditionally to a handsome, sensual girl named Rita. Sanders had met her in what was then a conventional way: he raped her. Sanders becomes Author Nimier's prototype of the fundamentally good Frenchman gone wrong. He is cynical, bitter, confused; he is also a great reader and a lover of Mozart. Big and tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Conquering French | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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