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...Cramm, 48, onetime tennistar, in her immediate vicinity. Will Phil be No. 7?."You're flattering me terribly," bubbled Heiress Hutton. "It's not true." But at week's end, boyish Phil Van Rensselaer could not contain his own enchantment. He confided to a Manhattan newshen that he is definitely on Babs's future matrimonial program. In Mexico, sometime in January, said Phil, Babs will become Mrs. Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetskoy Rubirosa von Cramm Van Rensselaer...
...longtime newshen and onetime legislative reporter for the Albany Knickerbocker Press, Pressagent Wheaton had been women's publicity director for the Republican National Committee for 18 years when she became the first woman press aide in White House history (TIME, April 15). A divorcee, she is as skillful with the skillet (specialty: corn pudding and fried chicken) as the handout. In her most critical task last week, she showed cucumber-cool efficiency in getting out advance texts of Ike's speech at precisely the promised hour (two hours before TV time), even looked serene as she distributed copies...
...Rushmore (but not in Los Angeles press accounts of the trial) was United Press Hollywood Reporter Aline Mosby, who was replaced in the press gallery (for reasons of "illness") after a defense attorney declared that she had written 24 stories for Confidential. Rushmore also testified that New York Daily Newshen Florabel Muir and husband Dennis Morrison had been on a retainer to supply stories. Reporter Muir,' who had been covering the trial single-handed in sprightly fashion, was joined by a New York staffer after denying to the News that she had ever worked for Confidential...
...sternly guards his personal privacy, Dwight Eisenhower is remarkably candid on such personal matters as health and habits, which most Americans regard as nobody's business. Last week, asked in press conference by U.P. Newshen Pat Wiggins for presidential advice on how to give up smoking, Ike grinned and confessed: "Of course, I was a very heavy smoker, probably brought about through my life in the military and war, and all that I was asked to do was to be more moderate about it. No doctor ever told me I should stop. But for me it was easier...
...four-word manual: "Get behind the handout." The result is a flow of economic reporting that widens out from the Times's fat business section and nourishes the whole paper. For, as Washington Post and Times Herald readers found during the New York Central proxy fight, when Newshen Malvina Lindsay bought one share of railroad stock and covered the battle from the viewpoint of a woman shareholder, some of the liveliest stories to be had are tucked between the balance sheets...