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...fourth time Eleanor Roosevelt headed the annual Book of Knowledge list of the world's brainiest women. On the list for the third time: Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Anatomist Dr. Florence Reno Sabin, New York Times Foreign Correspondent & Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. On the list for the second time: Correspondent Marguerite Higgins. Among those who made it for the first time: Social Worker Katharine Lenroot, Physicist Lise Meitner, Princess Elizabeth, Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg, Actress Judy (Born Yesterday) Holliday, Mrs. Ogden Reid, publisher...
Although he was confined to a Reno hospital bed last week, Nevada's blustering Senator Pat McCarran still managed -somewhat like the Queen Elizabeth whistling in drydock-to issue a blast at the State Department. At first glance, it seemed fairly routine: the Senator noted with alarm that 18 leftist U.S. labor leaders got visas for England, France and Italy last spring and then went blithely on to Moscow, took part in the Reds' May Day ceremonies and issued anti-American propaganda...
Divorced. Clifford Odets, 45, Broadway playwright (Awake and Sing!, Waiting for Lefty, Golden Boy) and Hollywood scripter (None But the Lonely Heart); by Bette Grayson Odets, 32, his second wife (his first: Actress Luise Rainer); after eight years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
Betty (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Smith arrived in Reno for the usual reason. Her marriage to second husband Joseph Piper Jones had been "a noble experiment that failed." Said she: "It was wartime, and one of those three-day-pass situations." The charge would be incompatibility, not cruelty, "because he's a nice guy. We simply didn't have anything to talk about...
Linda hustles off to a Reno vacation in search of romance. She loses $10,000 to Stephen McNally, owner of a gambling casino, who offers to swap her I.O.U. for a summer of tutoring for his little girl (Gigi Perreau). Linda reluctantly agrees, protesting so much that it takes no cinema connoisseur to see that her annoyance will soon blossom into love...