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...Sinatra, who recently proved in Madison, Ind. (TIME, Aug. 25) that he puts on some of his most striking performances offscreen, was being demilionized by London society and demi-society, while the press eagerly predicted that he was about to marry pretty, brunette Countess Beatty, 36, the former Adelle Dillingham O'Connor of Oklahoma City...
Chosen by the staff of 16 were John S. Pfarr, editor-in-chief; Bill O. Wright, business manager; John P. Moriarty, managing editor; Richard H. Miner, news editor; John M. Carroll, sports editor; Mary L. Denton and Linda Greenberg, Radcliffe editors; William S. Dillingham, production editor; and Roy J. Sonderling, photography editor...
Back to Hay-Pitching. That, far from panic, was the nation's mood last week, as reported by TIME correspondents in 33 cities. Sputnik, the Middle East and other events had, as a Chicago lawyer remarked, "punctured the psychological Maginot line." Said Jay Dillingham, president of the Kansas City Stock Yards Co.: "We've been like a farm boy gawking along the midway of a county fair. Now we've got to get back to work pitching hay." Florida's Congressman Dante Fascell reported attending a club meeting in Miami: "After it was over, a bunch...
...Love begins. Aspiring to the labors of Venus rather than Hercules, Alexis proposes two weeks of illicit bliss to Rose, a stranded French actress with a Greek drape shape. They withdraw to an unused south-of-France villa owned by Alexis' uncle. But the uncle, Sir George Dillingham, a 62-year-old Edwardian dandy steals a march on the lovers with his secret weapon ("The old Rolls stopped noiselessly outside"). Achieving complete surprise, Uncle George manages to detach Rose from Alexis...
...those days-was known as the Sodom of the South. By 1941 it had grown into a "Sin City" of more than 15,000 permanent residents, almost all of them employed in the vice factories-gambling dens, brothels, dope parlors-that lined Phenix City's 14th and Dillingham Streets. By night the population doubled, and most of the steady customers came from Fort Benning, the U.S. Army's training camp across the Chattahoochee. When the boys didn't come to Sin City, the city went to the boys-in "mattress vans" that parked along the roads near...