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...public scowls over her recent divorce and rumored romances, said Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, were making that incipient ulcer kick up again. All her troubles started, sighed the 19-year-old ex-wife of Hotel Heir Nicky Hilton, because "I have a woman's body and a child's emotions." People had tried to link her name with men, she added, "ever since I got so I could wear a plunging neckline, and that was when...
...Making Chapman the seventh golfer to win both the U.S. and British amateur titles. The others: Harold Hilton, Walter Travis, Jess Sweetser, Bobby Jones, Lawson Little and Willie Turnesa...
Novelist James (Lost Horizon) Hilton let Columnists Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg in on a well-kept secret-the origin of his famous Shangri-La. "La means 'mountain pass' in the language of Tibet, but the Shangri was my own idea . . . made it up out of whole cloth because it sounded so Tibetan, you see. Later on, a Far Eastern scholar wrote and told me that Shangri means 'secret' in Tibetan, so there you have it ... Rather surprising, what...
Morning Journey is totally unlike Novelist Hilton's big hits, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Lost Horizon. It is the story of a stage-struck Irish colleen named Carey, who pines for stardom and is raised to it by a producer who is a theatrical genius. He also marries Carey, but, like all geniuses in fiction, is too much of a heel to toe the married line. So Carey swaps him for a likable millionaire-only to conclude, after a couple of hundred pages of tightly packed pondering, that the path of genius, however rough, is preferable to Wall Street...
...Novelist Hilton's hands, this plot goes from ham to Spam. Had he shown but a spark of Carey's fondness for drama, Morning Journey might have turned into as much of a grassfire as Mr. Chips and Lost Horizon. As it is, readers can only look on with morbid fascination while Novelist Hilton earnestly lights the fires of one dramatic episode after another and then, swiftly dropping his matches and snatching up a fire bucket, pours suffocating streams of cold water over the struggling flames...