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Born. To Rory Calhoun (real name: Francis Timothy Durgin), 36, cinemactor, and Lita Baron, 28, Spanish-born onetime singer for Bandleader Xavier Cugat: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tami Diane. Weight...
...crookedest town in the country." Then, brushing aside the jokes, the show tried to present Beverly Hills as a typical American town-and merely succeeded in stripping it of its glamour. Introduced were a churchgoing father of four (Jimmy Stewart), a home-loving, family-raising couple (Rory Calhoun and Lita Baron), a beauty who spends her time quizzing kids on the Bible (Eleanor Powell), a couple who have been ideally married for 30 years (the Sam Goldwyns). There was no telling how many fascinating residents were considered and rejected for the show as not fitting a phony and tedious concept...
...Ostia, near Rome, clad only in a blouse and a pair of silk panties embroidered with teddy bears (TIME, Feb. 15). Police declared that Wilma had died by accidental drowning. Months later, brash young neo-Fascist Editor Silvano Muto printed a sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman nobleman who ran a narcotics ring. Wilma, said Attualita, apparently passed out from too much opium and was thrown on the beach by her companion...
...hand to underline the horrors of strong drink: a psychiatrist who had treated her (Announcer Edwards described Lillian as having suffered from "impending blindness, an inflamed sinus and a form of alcoholic insanity"); a brother-in-law who had paid her bills; such glamorous foul-weather friends as Lita Grey Chaplin and Ruby Keeler...
...Lita Grey, tiger-eyed second of Charlie Chaplin's four wives, was having none of this backing & filling: she decided to sue third husband Arthur Day for divorce after ten years because her new career (as a peripatetic nightclub singer) made things impractical...