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...identified by Knickerbocker as "The Milton Berle of Society." Betty Henderson "came in directly behind Mrs. Kavanaugh," giggled Society Columnist Charles Ventura in the World-Telegram, "and suffered a sound thwack over the tiara with a folded program by a dowager who resented having to wait in a drafty doorway until Betty was photographed. . . ." The press heard that she had paid only $48.25 for her gown at S. Klein's. She even put a 71-year-old leg up on a table in the Opera café, and repeated the performance for photographers later. The Post's Saloon...
...Doorway to Life (Sun. 1:30 p.m., CBS). Dramatizations of children's case histories: much better listening than the sudsy title indicates...
...built a dream house for herself and Jimmy in Hawaii. It was a Morocco-Persian mansion with two stone camels at the doorway, a swimming pool with a hydraulic-elevator springboard. Her "ShangriLa" cost $1,000,000. She also contributed $50,000 to the Democrats (Jimmy's political party), and when Jimmy was made U.S. Minister to Canada, she went along. She was a tall, shy, honey-blonde girl with a solemn face. Sometimes she entertained her friends by tap-dancing...
Femme Fatale. In Philadelphia, Sailor Meldon Bell sheepishly told cops that he had been pushed into a doorway and robbed by a rather "powerful" woman...
Grizzled old desert sheiks, who remembered the brief days of victory, wept as Sayed Abdul Rahman cut the orange ribbon across the tomb's doorway. Inside, a green, red and blue glass dome cast gaudy light on a glass chandelier and handsome Persian rug (the gift of Neighbor Emperor Haile Selassie). Sayed Abdul Rahman contemplated his father's inlaid sandalwood coffin, which he claimed to have found in the ruins of the old tomb last year...