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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. David Rose, 38, conductor-composer (Holiday for Strings'); and Betty Bigelow, 21, ex-Manhattan model; he for the third time (No. 1, Martha Raye, No. 2, Judy Garland), she for the first; in Las Vegas...
Back to Havana from a luxurious four-year exile, mostly in Florida, came Fulgencio Batista:, moonfaced onetime strong man of Cuba. Elected last June on the Liberal ticket as minority senator from Las Villas province, he was coming home to serve his term...
...Las Vegas, Nev., city of fast weddings and quick divorces, Judge A. G. ("Gus") Blad, a part-time bartender, led a field of twelve candidates for justice of the peace. The job is worth $50,000 a year in marriage fees...
...what would Mitchum's wife do? (During his talking jag, Mitchum had blamed their separation on his marijuana smoking.) On her way to California with the children, Jimmie, 7, and Chris, 5, she had heard the news in Las Vegas, and announced that she was undecided. By the time she reached Hollywood, she told newsmen that she would "stand by" Bob. Next day, to an obbligato of clicking shutters, the Mitchums posed in Hollywood's traditional happy-home embrace. Bob wore his screen-lover expression. Hollywood anxiously hoped that a public which (it thinks) likes and expects happy...
Family Fans. Betty's marriage (in Las Vegas on July 5, 1943) to Harry Haag James, the trumpeter son of a circus bandmaster and an aerialist mother, was all that a fan-magazine editor could ask for. James himself is no minor breadwinner ($100,036 in 1946). When he married Betty, the Grable fan clubs and the James fans merely merged into "The James Family Fan Clubs." When Betty had her first baby, her G.I. admirers promptly wrote their No. i pin-up girl to tell her all about their wives and their babies...