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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Dick Haymes, 40, sometime singing cinemactor (State Fair) and Frances Ann Makris, 21; he for the fifth time (No. 2: Joanne Dru; No. 4: Rita Hay worth), she for the second; in Arlington...
...glove, the boy is soon dolled up in pale blue breeches, reading from the Beatitudes and gazing blankly at a wide-eyed bit of fluff (Broadway's Carol Lynley) from across the road. Fess himself makes sheep's eyes at the preacher's daughter (Joanne Dru...
...quit his steel mill job at 19 to become an Alpine guide and ski instructor. In 1954 he was the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2. The next year he performed a fine one-man climb up Mont Blanc's Aiguille du Dru, survived six days and five nights while clawing alone up sheer rock and ice. Widely hailed by the Italian press, he replied: "I was no conqueror. I was alone, and the mountain awed me too much. I was full of worries and fear...
Divorced. John Ireland, 42, actor of screen (All the King's Men), stage (Summer and Smoke) and TV; by Joanne Dru (real name: Joanne Letitia La Cock), 35, brunette cinemactress (Red River, Day of Triumph) ; after 7½ years of marriage, no children (she has three by her marriage to Crooner Dick Haymes); in Hollywood...
Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9130 p.m., CBS). The Blackwell Story, with Joanne Dru as the first U.S. woman physician...