Word: conventionality
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Eight months after abandoning her $3,500-a-week Hollywood job for a Sisters of Charity convent in Kansas, Cinemactress June Haver, 27, flew home to Los Angeles, her attempt to become a nun at an end. Photographers snapped her getting kissed by her stepfather and mother, Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Ottestad. Ill health was June's reason for returning to secular life: "I was a novice, and it means just that. It's a time of trial, and if you can't do it, well...
...Nineteen-year-old Quintuplet Marie Dionne, for whom half the world prayed when her life flickered for days after her birth, announced that she would become a nun. She will enter the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Quebec City this fall, a cloistered order devoted to perpetual adoration of the Holy Sacrament. "From now on," she said, "I will have an opportunity to repay those people who remembered me when I was in need...
...along with her regular treatment, Joey began her investment. It had been a long time since her student days in a Manila convent. The return to books was not easy. She plunged into a schedule of classes that lasted from 8:30 in the morning until midafternoon, five days a week, with every seventh week off for a rest...
...when the 32-year-old model caught the smiling Irish eye of the 58-year-old mayor of New York, they had both been married before. Mayor William O'Dwyer was two years a widower. In 1938, Texas-born, convent-bred Sloan Simpson had married an insurance executive named Carroll Dewey Hipp, a Protestant, in a civil ceremony, was divorced from him five years later. The Archdiocese of New York granted her a "declaration of free state," permitting her to marry again. Catholics are not recognized by the church as married unless they have had a Catholic wedding (though...
...tossing her head or motioning imploringly to the audience. Through the tumult of her success, she remained as elusive as Tinker Bell. She had few close friends, was rarely seen in public off stage. At one time, overwork broke her health, and she found rest in a Roman Catholic convent in France (she was a nondenominational Christian). She lived there in a white-walled, cell-like room, which she later had reproduced in her own palatial Long Island home...