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After his Mexican "vacation" fiasco with Cinemactress Ava Gardner, Crooner Frank Sinatra turned up in Reno, called reporters in to make his peace with the press and hand out a bit of news: he will sing in Nevada nightclubs for six weeks, then start his own divorce proceedings against wife Nancy. But somehow everyone was beginning to find the whole affair a little wearisome. Yawned the New York Daily News in a one-sentence editorial: "Anybody know of a bigger bore just now than Frank Sinatra...
...returned with a manuscript for a full-length book. Another boy cycled from Ontario to California, making his way by giving radio interviews. He was attacked by a bull, sideswiped by a car; he witnessed eight automobile accidents and saw a man shoot his wife in the streets of Reno...
Divorced. Robert Nathan, 57, poet and novelist (Portrait of Jennie, One More Spring); by Janet Bingham Nathan, 40, his fourth wife; in Reno...
Divorced. Robert Penn Warren, 46, Rhodes scholar, poet turned professor, and Pulitzer Prize novelist (All the King's Men); and Emma Brescia Warren, fortyish; after almost 21 years of marriage; in Reno...
Presidential Plot. The Reno escapades form the opening salvo in the drumfire of bandit tales Authors Horan and Swiggett have let loose in their history of Pinkerton's National ("We Never Sleep") Detective Agency. The Pinkerton Story reads too much like a collection of Sunday-supplement pieces, but the raw material survives anything writers...