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Slimmed down after a nine-week diet of "baked beans, canned asparagus and Scotch whisky" while filming The African Queen in the Belgian Congo, Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart, with his wife Lauren Bacall and 2½-year-old son Stephen, arrived in Manhattan. Said Bogie: "Africa is a good place to stay away from, but I suppose that statement will burn up all the Africans." Before leaving for Hollywood, he went to a ball game, where he met another baseball fan, Douglas MacArthur. The dialogue, said Bogart, went something like this: "The general said: 'Hear you had a pretty rough...
Married. Cornel Wilde, 36, cinemactor (Forever Amber), and Jean Wallace (nee Walasek), supporting player more widely publicized for her off-screen capers; he for the second time, she for the third (No. 1: Franchot Tone); in Santa Monica...
...Atlanta, oldtime Cinemactor Francis X. Bushman asked to be driven to the capitol grounds for a look at the statue of Confederate General John B. Gordon. Explained Bushman, recalling his days as an artist's model at $10 a pose, "I've always wanted to see him. I posed for his body but they added General Gordon's head...
Divorced. Cinemactor Cornel (Forever Amber, A Song to Remember) Wilde, 35: by sometime Cinemactress Patricia (The Fabulous Texan) Knight, 31; after 14 years of marriage, one daughter, on & off separations since 1947; in Reno...
Died. Robert Walker, 32, boyish cinemactor (Strangers on a Train; See Here, Private Hargrove), at the peak of a successful screen comeback after an emotional crackup and widely publicized alcoholic escapades; of respiratory failure, after a doctor had given him a dose of sodium amytal to quiet an emotional upset; in Hollywood. Born in Salt Lake City (where his father edited the Deseret News), Walker went off to theatrical school in New York, there met Phyllis Isley, married her, lived in artistic poverty while appearing in Greenwich Village theatricals. In 1943, both got big breaks in Hollywood-he in Bataan...