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Duel. In La Porte, Ind., Joseph E. Machinski, 27, and Anthony S. Magglio, 25, who had terrorized innocent café patrons, were arrested and fined $1 apiece (plus costs) for blazing away at each other with their cap pistols...
Lana Turner, just back from a much-publicized vacation with Café Sportsman Bob Topping, was suspended by MGM. Her sin: she had refused to play Dumas' seductive villainess, Milady de Winter, in The Three Musketeers. Nevertheless, grumbled the studio, she had drawn a $25,000 advance on her salary for the vacation. Gossipist Louella Parsons predicted that husky-voiced Lana would be back in harness in 24 hours; but 72 hours later she was still on vacation...
Died. Richard Allen Knight, 49, café socialite, once brilliant lawyer (disbarred); in Manhattan. Great-headed Texan Knight, whose early success (1928 earnings: $80,000) began boring him into his cups, embarked on a series of well-publicized didos (most famed: a headstand at the 1939 opening of the Metropolitan Opera...
Many a U.S. citizen who still thought of marriage as a relatively permanent relation was mildly surprised that a married man should announce his "engagement" to another woman. But no one in the Right Set, as the columnists sometimes call café society, batted a jaded...
Christmas Eve in Athens was peaceful. On café terraces around Sintagma Square people sipped coffee in bright sunshine. Flower stalls did a rush business in hyacinths, violets and almond blossoms. Hardly anyone heard the guerrilla announcement when it was first made, because Athens has been jamming the rebel broadcasts from the north...