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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced by fourth wife Elaine last month in California, sawed-off (5 ft. 3 in.) Cinemugger Mickey (The Last Mile) Rooney, 38, whose matrimonial misadventures have set him back roughly $1,000,000 so far, sprang a few surprises that set even jaded old Hollywood buzzing. First off, Mickey casually let drop that he had divorced Elaine, by her leave, in Mexico last December. His fiancée-to-be, Barbara Thomason, 22, a sometime starlet, had gone along for the ride. Feeling free as an uncaged lovebird, Rooney married her on the spot. Then Mickey uncorked a real showstopper...
Ordinarily allotting little time to frivolity, France's austere President Charles de Gaulle unbent visibly at a benefit ball held under Justice Ministry auspices in Paris' Palais de Chaillot. Limiting his decorations solely to the Legion of Honor, Old Soldier de Gaulle smiled properly and offered affable greetings to Movie Luminaries Yul (The Sound and the Fury) Brynner, Sophia (The Black Orchid) Loren, Maurice (Count Your Blessings) Chevalier, William (The Bridge on the River Kwai) Holden, Cary (An Affair to Remember) Grant...
...famed Winchell legwork has slackened to an amble. His Manhattan jungle prowls are intermittent now; he prefers to let his 40-odd faithful squad of Broadway volunteers pump up the bulk of the gossip. When he does walk abroad, he likes to visit the scenes of old triumphs: "This is where I got Lepke." He is often alone-an isolation the big game he once stalked is pleased not to invade. He was seen alone recently at Rashomon, at the Louis Prima-Keely Smith opening at the Copacabana, and the other night he sat peaceably at Sardi...
...week from his parent paper, Hearst's New York Mirror, and additional income from his radio newscast, show-business appearances ($70,000 for two weeks in Las Vegas last year), and his column syndication-down to about 145 papers-keeps him in the 91% income tax bracket. The old lion has not only grown mild, but flabby ("I'm six pounds overweight right...
...complaisance, there are those who still keep a wary eye on the lazing erstwhile king. "Sure." said Broadway-TV Actor Horace (Naked City) MacMahon, "you're always hearing people say, 'Well, Winchell can't fight any more.' Maybe so, but it's like old Sugar Ray Robinson-you know anybody wants to fight...