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After nearly 15 years of marriage (one daughter) and four of separation, beefy Cafe Societyman John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 45, far past his pro football days and farther still from his native Kentucky town, slapped a divorce suit on his millionheiress wife, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly, 34, far past her own salad days as America's "No. 1 debutante and glamour girl." Grounds: desertion. Glamour kept haunting Brenda from the heady evening of her coming-out party (cost: a reported $60,000) in 1938. Moaned she, more than a decade later: "Being a glamour girl is the worst...
...James Duff, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. At a dinner in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel a couple of weekends ago, about ten of the Ikemen specifically decided: 1) to encourage pro-Eisenhower candidates to run next year for congressional and local offices across the U.S., 2) to reactivate the Citizens for Eisenhower movement of 1952. They do not intend to put any pressure on the President to run, but they do see the need for what one of them calls "a movement of rededication" to Eisenhower...
...Candidate Longstreth. Among first string Republicans who said a good word for the candidate: President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey (who spoke at a $100-a-plate Philadelphia G.O.P. dinner), National Chairman Leonard Hall, Pennsylvania's U.S. Senators Edward Martin and James Duff, and Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck...
...event Ike does not seek reelection, the HYRC official said the Republicans' list of possible nomination candidates will include Vice President Nixon, Senator Knowland, Chief Justice Warren, Governor William Stratton of Ill., Senator James Duff of Penn., Governor Theodore McKeldon of Md., and Governor Christian Herter '15 of Mass...
Last week's rain wet down much of California, but at week's end fire still crackled in the deep combustible duff of the forest floor. In the Sequoia and other blackened forests, the Forest Service was making brisk plans to replant. Said Fire Boss Geil, his face drawn and his eyes hooded with fatigue: "We'll plant seedlings, and we'll prune them, and in 70 or 80 years we'll have the timber back. It'll take a lot of work. Tomorrow we start...