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...they say in the set, is "the right sort," and everyone was delighted that pretty Durie Desloge, 22, will marry Briton Roderic lain Bullough, 28, in late May. The couple met in Bangkok last summer, and right now they are in Palm Beach visiting her mother, Durie Malcolm Bersbach Desloge Shevlin, who hit the prints last year when longtime, but never proved, rumors that she had once been secretly married to John F. Kennedy stirred a minor sensation...
...depending on who he was, he either accepted it as fact or thought it a good joke. Newsmen heard about it and, understandably, became curious. The best, fastest, most direct way of checking seemed to be by asking the parties involved: President Kennedy and Mrs. Durie Malcolm Bersbach Desloge Shevlin...
...family estate, where, society columns recorded, there was "half a ton of gorgeous bouquets and corsages," and "Dede" was "radiant, with golden-brown hair, blue-green eyes and a sunny smile." At the age of 20, on April 3, 1937, in a Presbyterian ceremony, she married John Bersbach, grandson of Judge Theodore Brentano, onetime Minister to Hungary. They honeymooned in a yacht off Florida, tried to settle down in Lake Forest...
...marriage lasted only 14 months. Recalls Bersbach, now a Chicago printing executive: "You know how these divorces are. Somebody testified that they saw me slap her twice. Actually, I've never slapped a woman in my life. She was a darn attractive girl, very vivacious, but she liked to bounce around.'' The divorce was granted on June...
...Pace in Montecatini, Italy, she said: "It's absolutely false and ridiculous. I'm not even sure how the story began. I've been married to Mr. Shevlin for 15 or 16 years, and previously I was married for a short time to John Bersbach and then to Firmin Desloge, by whom I had a daughter who's 20 now. I know the President's family well and have known him for a long time, and saw him years ago at Palm Beach and once went with him and his family to an Orange Bowl...