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...Jersey town of Franklin, sometime Actress Magda (This Thing Called Love) Gabor, fortyish, eldest of the three best-known U.S. glamour imports from Hungary, took a groom, Queens Contractor Arthur ("Tony") Gallucci, 45. Three years ago Mama Jolie Gabor, ageless, had expressed concern about marrying off twice-wed Eva and thrice-wed Magda: "It is difficult to find husbands for them. They are not little Cinderellas. Always they have had the best minks and best diamonds." Week's end brought another groom to the Gabor hearthside. In Manhattan Eva (younger than her mother) married handsome Beverly Hills Surgeon John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 16, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. James T. Farrell, 51, relentlessly detailed novelist (the Studs Lonigan trilogy, the Danny O'Neill series); and his first wife, Dorothy Butler FarrelL fortyish; on Sept. 10; in Montclair. NJ. They were first married in 1931, divorced in 1940, had no children; Farrell married Hortense Alden the same year, divorced her in 1955, had one son, Kevin James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...HIDDEN GRAVE, by Peter Hardin (217 pp.; Harper: $2.75), is the story of Gideon, a fortyish, "handsome granite man, huge, subtly balanced." He has cold grey eyes and cropped grey curls. Men bristle with an atavistic hate in his presence, but women lust after him. Why has Gideon come back to a place he has avoided for 20 years? What is the fascinating secret of Helen, now one of the town's leading citizens, who once loved him unreservedly? Why do the hotelkeeper, the banker and the lawyer first fawn upon him, then try to threaten and bully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New Whodunits | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...flesh, Madame Z. is Jacqueline Roque, a dark-haired, dark-eyed Antibes' woman, fortyish. self-effacing, maternal, and of course lovely to look at-Picasso has no fear of ugliness in art, but he does not appreciate it in women. For Jacqueline Roque's sake, and because he does hate fuss, Picasso passed up last week's festivities in Paris. He was busy settling into an ornate villa, La Californie, overlooking Cannes and the blue Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Springtime for Pablo | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...Picasso with a panoramic exhibition of his works, thus marked his 75th birthday and the 54th anniversary of his arrival in France. Picasso himself, waiting for the crowd to thin before going to his own show, holed up in his new Cannes villa with a mysterious new girl friend, fortyish, known as Madame Z. As a long line of limousines poured out specially invited guests on opening day, a grim little old lady, topped by a black straw hat cluttered with artificial flowers, showed up, herself looking like a 19th century period piece. She was none other than Alice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

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