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Novelist James (Some Came Running) Jones settled down with Wife Gloria (a onetime stand-in for Marilyn Monroe) in a three-room Paris walk-up overlooking the Seine, worked mornings on his latest novel about Jazz Guitarist Bjango Reinhardt, kept afternoons free to match wits with electric pinball machines in neighborhood bistros. Gloria, who has been sampling haute couture, said of the pinballs: "This is a new thing, and I suppose it will pass. He just gets so wound...
...reversal: Miller was not told clearly by the committee that refusal to give the names constituted contempt. Said Miller: "My only regret is that I was put through so much trouble in order to end up where I started-namely, a free American citizen." Cooed his wife, Marilyn Monroe: "Simply wonderful...
Deus ex Machina. His wartime success got Jack a job in Hollywood shortly after he came home. RKO and later 20th Century-Fox put him under contract but rarely got around to putting him in front of a camera (he did once play opposite an unheard-of starlet named Marilyn Monroe). In 1947 he was hired as the summer replacement on NBC-Radio's Jack Benny Show. His fresh, natural style was a success, and in the fall American Tobacco put the Jack Paar Show on the air on ABC. It lasted until Christmas Eve. In his radio days...
Married. Lester ("The Debutantes' Delight") Lanin, fiftyish, wiry, jumpy bandleader whose ubiquitous multicelled society orchestra commands fees up to $15,000, has been known to play for as many as 25 widely scattered parties in a single night; and Marilyn Weiss, 22, his secretary; both for the first time; in York...
Divorced. By Rhonda Fleming (real name: Marilyn Louis), 34, titian-haired cinemelon (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral): Dr. Lewis V. Morrill Jr., 41, Beverly Hills surgeon; after six years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Rhonda's novel reason why their union hit the rocks: "He said he was sacrificing his career...