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Married. Glamor Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20; and John Sims Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player whom the bride prefers to call "Jack" rather than "Shipwreck"; in her mother's Manhattan apartment...
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20, perennial Glamor Girl No. 1, finally decided to wed her longtime escort, socialite Insuranceman John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player. Brenda, whose allowance has been $1,000 a week, said they would live on Ship's insurance commissions, at least until she comes into her $3,500,000 next year. He gave her a diamond-paved cabochon emerald ring. She said they would live obscurely. Dancers Tony and Renee de Marco seemed split for good when Renee left Manhattan last week, bound for "Florida ... or Reno." Maritally separated since 1938, they...
Since Beaverbrook took a hand in M.O.I, there has been many a rumor that he intends to take over Duff Cooper's job as Minister of Information. London corre spondents think it unlikely that Beaverbrook will do more with M.O.I, than play the super-coordinator. But for the first time in World War II they are hopeful of evening the score in their one-sided contest with M.O.I. censors, red tape and buck-passing civil servants...
Typical of official miscuing were the statements that Britain's Ministers made throughout the week. Said Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper, two days after Hess's capture was announced: "His arrival here shows the first breach in the Nazi Party . . . since Hitler murdered a huge bloc of his own followers on June...
...first public reaction to the news in Britain and the Americas was the same as Duff Cooper's. Hess was played up as a "decent" Nazi who had escaped from the enemy camp, would undoubtedly aid the British...