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...Cousin Rachel (20th Century-Fox), co-starring Newcomer Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland, who is hopeful of a third best-actress Oscar (previous awards: 1946, 1949). The studio's dark horse: Stars and Stripes Forever, with Clifton Webb playing the late John Philip Sous'a (see below...
Divorced. By Olivia de Havilland, 36, cinemactress who has twice won Oscars (To Each His Own, The Heiress): Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, 54, hot-tempered one-shot novelist (Delilah); on their sixth wedding anniversary; in Los Angeles. To back up her charge of "incompatibility" Olivia explained to the court that Goodrich 1) never told her he had had four previous wives, 2) had not worked since their marriage, 3) "took exception to something I said . . . said he would kill me." Awarded custody of two-year-old Benjamin, Olivia sighed: "I couldn't bear the idea of divorce...
...Harris heaped eight paragraphs of praise on the play itself, on G.B.S., on Candida as his favorite Shaw heroine, on most of the players, and added kind words for the staging and the set. His review ended with a one-sentence stinger: "The title role is taken by Miss Olivia de Havilland, a motion picture actress." Tribune Critic Claudia Cassidy found Olivia "an interruption, nothing more." The verdict of the actress' 27-month-old son, Benjamin, made it unanimous: "The curtain goes up and my mommy comes out and talks and talks and talks...
...Olivia Holguin's legs had been useless from birth; she had a twisted wrist and a deformed hand. At 30, she seemed hopelessly crippled. But early this year, Orthopedic Surgeon S. Perry Rogers of El Paso amputated her legs and got ready to fit artificial limbs. Since El Paso has no bone bank, Dr. Rogers (with the patient's permission) kept the amputated bones in his food freezer...
...Rogers got a chance to draw on his improvised bone bank when he was called in to treat two little girls, Martha Arellano, 7, and Lily Mendoza, 6, who have tuberculosis of the spine. Dr. Rogers used sections of bone from Olivia Holguin's legs to strengthen the little girls' vertebrae. Walking well on her new legs (she used neither crutches nor cane), Olivia Holguin went to Southwestern General Hospital to pay a visit to the children she had helped to mend. Last week, both youngsters went home...