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Born. To Gregory Peck, 40, lanky cinemactor (Moby Dick), and Véronique Passani, 24, onetime Parisian newshen: a son, their first child (his fourth); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anthony. Weight...
...Hollywood, outraged Newshen Hedda Hopper decried the fact that Clark Gable's contract had a clause inserted in 1935 (before TV was born) permitting the studio eventually to release all of Gable's movies to TV, tut-tutted: "How will our motion-picture theaters compete with TV showing Garbo, Gable, Garland and all the Barrymores in the greatest pictures ever made...
Next day she held an hour-long interview with 250 pressmen jammed into the chandeliered River Room of London's Savoy Hotel. Reported Daily Telegraph Newshen Winifred Carr, dolefully: "I've had my eyes well and truly opened about men, after watching a roomful of the most critical, cynical and sophisticated males in town, hard-bitten journalists, act like adolescents. Even those who had come to sneer were hanging on her words like impressionable schoolboys and laughing at her wit before she had completed a sentence." Glowed the Daily Mirror: "Marilyn Monroe, the sleek, the pink...
Exploding rumors of her timely death, crop-haired Ana Pauker, 62, Rumania's out-of-season Foreign Minister, granted an interview to a Western newshen, according to Vienna's daily Die Presse, and seemed alive. Stripped of power in a 1952 intraparty fight (TIME, June 17, '52), old Hatchetwoman Pauker declined to talk politics ("I am an old woman") or pose for photographs, limited her observations to art, books and cooking...
Died. Margaret Thompson Biddle, 59, Montana-born mining heiress, ex-wife of wealthy Soldier-Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., grande dame of American society in Paris since World War II, sometime authoress (Women' of England) and Paris newshen (Realties, farflung columnist for Woman's Home Companion); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris...