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Died. Julian Street, 67, novelist (Rita Coventry) and short-story writer, epicure (Where Paris Dines), close friend and collaborator (Country Cousin) of the late Booth Tarkington; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Lakeville, Conn...
...amid the mountains. There was no living thing in sight, not even the fearsome character who (the legend said) cut off the heads of explorers and prospectors. All Berton found in his quick peek were two crumbling cabins near by. In one was a faded pin-up picture of Rita Hayworth, which the exploring reporter matched with a pin-up note: "Kilroy was here...
...Meyer Berger found George Teese, a New York Central engineer who owns a 1937 Packard, at home in Harmon on Hudson, N. Y.: "George and his wife, Rita, have a centrally heated, spotless, well-furnished six-room apartment. The Teeses don't save much . . . with prices as they are, but they live well ... a roast every day since the meat shortage ended. This year George has averaged about $600 a month. 'It's a strain, usually 16 hours a day, but a man would be a fool or a loafer not to get it while...
...Ensign David Flohr of Banana River, Fla., passed along a current idiom. In a letter to LIFE, praising a picture of Rita Hayworth in a sheer nightgown, he cried: "She's really Mello-Rooney, Viddle...
Orson Welles & Rita Hayworth, after six months of separation, celebrated their conjugal reconjunction in one of those Hollywood domestic pictures: of Husband Orson inspecting Wife Rita's hair in mid-passage from red to blonde...