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Cinemactor Lex (Tarzan) Barker, 34, confided to a reporter how his marriage to Cinemactress Lana Turner, 34, has converted them both into plain old homebodies: "We just have dinner at home, and never go any place. She owes me a fortune in gin rummy." Lana, said Lex, lets him hang his trophies on the wall. "Some women might stick up their noses at my African shields and my helmets and swords, but Lana's cute about it. She tries on the helmets...
...pouring down gin-sling...
Just Us Historians. In Akron, police raided a null room, inside found two chairs, a bed, a table, a dresser, three pairs of dice, twelve decks of cards, one bottle of gin and 23 men who explained that they had gathered "to discuss current events...
...spending most of their time touring the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht, the Armentières. They were often joined in their cruising by Mrs. Chesney's mother, who called herself "Lady" Mary Menzies. When Donald's fondness for gay company and Isobel's fondness for gin at last drove them apart in 1937, Lady Mary and her daughter went back to London, bought a large house in Ealing, and opened a boardinghouse for genteel elderly ladies and gentlemen. Donald went on to join the navy, served as a torpedo-boat commander. But he ended...
Geneva, which cradled Calvinism and the League of Nations and between times innocently got its name mixed up with gin, has lately gained fame in another capacity: the abortion capital of western Europe. In the little canton (pop. 200,000) which embraces the lake city, 1953 saw no less than 3,277 legal abortions, of which 1,761 were performed on nonresidents. In Geneva last year the number of legal abortions exceeded the number of live births...