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Appointee William Dee Kendrick, 40, of Fairfield, it seems, is a boyhood pal of Folsom's. The Governor thought it was rather a cute trick on his opponents...
...Down, a husky tune Nellie herself wrote. First, her piano accompanied her with knotty background chords while she sang; on a second chorus, she accompanied the piano (which she plays in a style reminiscent of the musician she most admires, Duke Ellington) with a kind of happy deedle-dee-dee whisper...
...Jimmy separated. Three years later she got a Reno divorce, although Jimmy countered with a court order declaring the divorce of no effect in New Jersey. While their broken romance dragged through the courts and the tabloids, Dee-Dee went to Egypt to help the war effort...
...tried running a merchant seamen's canteen. She gave that up and went to Rome. There she worked as a reporter for Hearst's International News Service. Said Dee-Dee: "I've been searching for some kind of work both useful and interesting." In 1946 she returned to the U.S. and revisited Shangri-La. Last spring she fluttered back to Paris, this time as a fashion editor for Harper's Bazaar. There last week Dee-Dee got married again...
...Rubi." Her husband was Porfirio Rubirosa, whom she had met the year before in Rome. "Rubi" danced divinely. Dee-Dee danced divinely, too. Rubi was honorary chargé d'affaires of the Dominican Republic, although he was not recognized by the French because he had once been acceptable to the Vichy regime. He was lean, dark, and a few inches shorter than Dee-Dee. He had been married twice before-to Dominican Dictator Trujillo's daughter Flor de Oro, and to Danielle Darrieux, the pert and sexy French film star (Mayerling), who had once been marked for death...