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Looking as if wedded bliss was everything he asked of it, hopeful Crooner Dennis Crosby, 23, son of Old Groaner Bing, avoided the obvious to gaze into the eyes of his Showgirl Bride Pat Sheehan, 26. No sooner had the junior Crosbys taken their vows in Las Vegas, Nev., where Pat, a divorcee, hoofs in a nightclub, than word leaked out in Los Angeles that sometime Telephone Operator Marilyn Scott, 25, as the result of a little unwedded bliss with Dennis, was the mother of a 5½-month-old daughter, whose support has been provided by the Crosby lawyers...
...virtuoso like this only once or twice in a century." France's Marquis de Gontaut-Biron, a frequent judge of piano contests, found that Van had "almost the technique of Horowitz during his prime, and he has everything Horowitz always lacked." Raved Britain's Sir Arthur Bliss: "He plays with fire and poetry, and gives vitality to every phrase." More cautious, U.S. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos feels that Van "could rise to Rubinstein's stature, but at the moment it's not fair to compare them." Says Piano Critic Abram (Speaking of Pianists) Chasins...
...filling "orchid lady of the screen," revealed that the bloom was off her 22-year marriage to garrulous George Preston Marshall, onetime Washington laundryman and owner of the Redskins pro football team. Corinne, a West Coast realtor, will file for divorce, told a reporter: "There is no marital bliss in being 3,000 miles apart. And as hard as I tried, I just couldn't learn to play football." Promoter Marshall, for once, had no comment...
...island legislative building that serves as temporary headquarters for the new West Indies Federation, a packed chamber of officials had been waiting for half an hour, sweating in white wool wigs and red and black robes. The princess walked to the speaker's platform and eased into the bliss of an "air-conditioned" chair. While the pipes underneath blew cool air up around her, Margaret read the Queen's congratulations and her own on the new union. Prime Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams responded, and with this the federal legislature, elected March 25, was inaugurated...
Professor Copeland was the third member of the trio which included Bliss Perry and George Lyman Kittredge who, in the words of John Mason Brown, "...succeeded in making a classroom seem like a theatre." His voice became such a Harvard institution that he performed annual readings for the Harvard Union at Christmas time, for the Harvard Club of New York, and for a group of alumni who had formed the Charles Townsend Copeland Association in his honor...