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...Mumbles Elvis' Big Brother Vance as he stands before his father's grave: "That is always the way. We go off and fight for four years and they (the Yanks) kill him at home." Humor--co-stars Richard Egan and Debra Paget gritting their teeth as Elvis sings "Yam Ganna Fix Dis Old House," a rock-and roll song (presumably about the South's reconstruction period). And, of course, Tenderness--Elvis (writhing from the hips as he dies): "Is Everything going to be all right...
TIME [July 22] stated that when Madame Ganna Walska divorced Yogi Theos Bernard she agreed to pay him $1,500 a month alimony. That was an error. Believing that Bernard was penniless, Madame Ganna Walska agreed to pay him $1,500 to cover his living expenses for three months until his suit for separate maintenance could be tried. After that payment had been made, it was discovered that he had substantial means and Madame Ganna Walska thereupon sued for divorce. The divorce was granted but did not provide for any cash settlement or for any alimony...
Married. Adah Wilson McCormick, 38, widow of Harold Fowler McCormick, harvester millionaire; and George Tait II, 30, aircraft engineer; in Phoenix. Longtime nurse of McCormick, who left her a fortune when he died at 69 a year ago, she was his third wife (first: Edith Rockefeller; second: Diva Ganna Walska...
...revolutionary McCormick reaper, Harold and Brother Cyrus Jr. built their father's business into the world's biggest farm-equipment house, International Harvester Co. In 1895 he married John D. Rockefeller's daughter Edith, was divorced by her in 1921. Next year he married Singer Ganna Walska, whose opera ambitions he tried to realize without success. He withdrew his support from the Chicago Civic Opera Co. in the season 1921-22, divorced Walska in 1931, helped found the Chicago Grand Opera Co. in 1934. Ill during the last years of his life, he married Adah Wilson...
Died. Harry Grindell-Matthews, 61, inventor of a highly publicized "death ray," fifth husband of Singer Ganna Walska; in his lonely, electrically guarded bungalow laboratory near Swansea, Wales. An electrical researcher, he developed submarine detectors, "aerial mines," remote-control devices, sound-film synchronization, in 1911 established wireless communication with a plane in flight...