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Hollywood's gay young marrieds, Lana Turner and Lex (Tarzan) Barker, were reported to have kissed and made up, after a spat at a recent party. To celebrate the occasion, they did what any other sensible couple might do-if they were Lana and Lex. Reported Columnist Sidney Skolsky: "Lana and Lex, who just bought sports cars exactly alike, caused a sensation ... as they cruised down Sunset Boulevard side by side in their creamy-white convertibles with black and white upholstery...
Autumn, 1944. Clark Gable of the British intelligence, his lips tight, stares at Lana Turner, whose dress is even tighter. Clark: "Why did you come [to England]?" Lana: "Because I wanted to get into the war." Clark: "How much of yourself would you be willing to give?" Lana gives plenty, and not only in spy school; she has soon passed the kiss test with flying colors-in this case, black and blue. For at 53 Gable (who was recently called by one half-crushed actress "the Pudge Heffelfinger of osculation") still has the he-manliest hug in the business...
...Suddenly Lana remembers: "We mustn't be selfish." The war, you know, and all that. So away she flies to Holland to make-or maybe have-a liaison with Victor Mature, the well-known resistance leader. Somebody's resistance is low, it would seem, for when Gable pops in one day, Lana is snoozing comfily in Victor's bed. "Of course," Clark huffs, "outside working hours you're your own mistress." But shortly thereafter Clark becomes convinced that Lana is betraying Victor's intimate secrets to the Germans, and orders her arrest. It takes...
...American ideal." Objectionable oldster types, according to State Senator Thomas C. Desmond, 63: Lionel Barrymore (as a cantankerous oldster), Billy Burke (as a rattlebrain). Objectionable youngster types, "the type of youth glorification that makes it difficult for older women to find a useful, happy place in modern life": Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable. Retorted the Motion Picture Association of America: Senator Desmond is making "a desperate play for publicity . . . [and] failed to check the long and respected list of Hollywood's own senior citizens, still going strong after many years of entertaining millions of people...
...longtime (1921-40) pastor of Hollywood's huge (membership: 6,400) First Presbyterian Church; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Dr. MacLennan hit the headlines briefly in 1948 when he was formally rebuked by the Los Angeles Presbytery for performing the marriage ceremony for thrice-divorced Lana Turner and thrice-divorced Bob Topping, said in his own defense that he was impressed by Lana's "sincerity and depth of feeling...