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Divorced. Edmund Purdom, 29, wavy-haired, British-born cinemactor (The Egyptian); by Anita ("Tita") Purdom, 27; after four years of marriage, one of separation, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...said. "I want to help out a little bit. Here's two-fifty." She thanked him, but it was not until she was in the subway that she noticed she was holding a check not for a mere $2.50 but for $250. It was signed by the prestigious British-born U.S. poet, W. H. (for Wystan Hugh) Auden. "Poets do look a bit unpressed, don't they?" she mused happily...
...British-born Monica Dehn, now 35, studied journalism at London University and worked in the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Balkan department before she went out to Jerusalem for a wartime assignment with a Foreign Office radio station beamed at the Balkans. When the British mandate ended in Israel, she stayed on because of her "terrific curiosity about the new state...
Married. Clark Gable, 54, durable Hollywood screen lover (Mogambo, Soldier of Fortune); and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, onetime model and Hollywood starlet turned socialite millionheiress; he for the fifth time (his most recent: British-born Sylvia Hawkes, onetime Lady Ashley, who divorced him in 1952), she for the fourth (her most recent: Sugar Heir Adolph Spreckels Jr., whom she divorced in 1952 after accusing him of beating her with her own slipper); in Minden...
...continued accurate coverage of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's vaccine. That man is Gilbert Cant, 45, TIME's MEDICINE editor for the past six years, a TIME writer and correspondent for five years before that. Writing the cover story on Dr. Salk (March 29, 1954) gave British-born Editor Cant a searching interest in the Salk vaccine. In recent months, he has been reporting week by week on the use of the vaccine, "calling the shots as I see them and narrowing down on the essentials." His most essential and informative story, Premature & Crippled, appears in this week...