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...ESTHER VARALLYAY Montreal...
Easy to Love (M-G-M), starring Esther Williams and Van Johnson, is not to be confused with an earlier picture of almost the same name, Easy to Wed, and another of almost the same plot, The Duchess of Idaho. In the first case, the difference between love and marriage should help in telling the pictures apart; in the second, the only real difference is that Idaho was shot in Sun Valley and Love in Florida's Cypress Gardens. All that matters, anyway, is that Mermaid Williams again wears a lockerful of sensational new bathing suits, and any moviegoer...
...Born. To Esther Williams, 31, cinemermaid (Dangerous When Wet), and second husband Ben Gage, 36, Los Angeles restaurateur: their third child, first daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan. Weight...
Four novelists with solid reputations hold most of the ground they have already gained but gain little new in their latest books. Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat gets as far away from ships and war as he can in The Story of Esther Costello (Knopf). It is a skillfully written attack on the ruthless ballyhoo which makes an innocent handicapped girl the center of a charity racket. Another novelist who finds it hard to do anything seriously wrong is Wright Morris. In The Deep Sleep (Scribner), he dissects the private lives of a Philadelphia Main Line family, and shows that...
...himself denied under oath in 1948 that he was a Communist. Had the loyalty board called in any of the witnesses named in the FBI file? No. "It is not customary to call any witnesses except those requested by the accused." In 1951, the FBI notified the GPO that Esther Rothschild was an active Communist. Had the GPO looked into that? No. Hadn't all the information brought out by the McCarthy subcommittee been available to the loyalty board? Replied GPO's personnel director, S. Preston Hipsley: "You developed the spirit in [Rothschild] of refusal to cooperate...