Word: agar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Shirley Jane Temple, 21, cinemactress: John Agar, 28, cinemactor; after four years of marriage, one daughter; in Hollywood...
...fruits and vegetables, most food is absorbed in the small intestine and not enough bulk reaches the colon to cause automatic muscle contraction (peristalsis). The thing to do, says Dr. Bargen, is to get more bulk into the colon. Thus far, the job has been done awkwardly by sprinkling agar-agar, kelp and psyllium seeds on breakfast foods...
...again, off-again romances and marriages in Hollywood give newspaper and magazine editors the willies. They never know when they will be caught cooing over a couple that has stopped billing. When Shirley Temple and John Agar suddenly called it quits, the Detroit Free Press was thus booby-trapped. Its Sunday magazine section, which had gone to press before the divorce announcement but was distributed two days later, pictured the "happily wedded John Agars." But the Free Press neatly recovered the fumble in a note to its readers in the news section: "This was our darling, dimpled Shirley Temple...
Shirley wanted no alimony but she wanted full custody of 20-month-old Linda Susan Agar ("The worst thing about all this," she said, "is what it will do to the baby"). To Louella's colleague, Columnist Sheilah Graham, Shirley unburdened a little more: "The trouble with my marriage started two and a half years ago, when Johnny started to drink My suit doesn't mention the drinking,'but it has become unbearable...
...part, Agar, going home to his mother, announced that he would not contest Shirley's divorce. Said he: "I agree with Shirley that it must be done in a dignified manner...