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After being divorced by seven wives, Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville, 56, announced that this time he was the one who would go West and file for divorce. Said No. 8, British-born Georgina Campbell, 32: "I think he'll feel better about it if he brings the suit. It's better for him psychologically. He always felt that women were running away from...
Married. Faye Emerson, 33, bosomy actress of cinema (Guilty Bystander) and TV (The Faye Emerson Show) ; and Lyle Cedric ("Skitch") Henderson, 32, British-born pianist, bandmaster, disc jockey; she for the third time (No. 2: Elliott Roosevelt), he for the first; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...
...British-born Couturier Captain Edward Molyneux put on an "everything must go" sale at his London dress shop (sample marked-down price: $2,800). He will henceforth concentrate on his Paris establishment...
...Spanish Gardener (Little, Brown; $3) comes from the medicine chest of a real M.D., British-born A. (for Archibald) J. (for Joseph) Cronin. Dr. Cronin's compound is easier to swallow only because it is smaller. The story deals with the U.S. consul in a Spanish town, a vain, possessive introvert who stands between his frail young son and a normal boyhood. When the boy becomes fond of their kindly young gardener, the jealous consul breaks up their innocent friendship by a device that leads to the gardener's death. Dr. Cronin writes better than Novelists Yerby...
...book, Radio, Television, and Society (Oxford University Press; $4.75), British-born Educator Charles A. Siepmann disposed of radio's old argument that it is just giving the public what it wants. Wrote Siepmann: "[That] theory makes as much sense as if a large department store were to clear its shelves of all commodities except the best-selling lines." If popular acceptance of programs is the measure of good radio, said Siepmann, then all radio is good, because Russians, Britons, Danes and Swedes listen to their radios as much as Americans...