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...Clergymen at Reno, Nev. (which had 24,354 marriages as compared to 6,464 divorce actions last year) adopted a new code of ethics: "No minister should commercialize the performance of weddings by making deals with taxi drivers, courthouse employees, or any other individuals who may act as solicitors...
Divorced. By Gloria Swanson, 49, siren of the silent screen (now making a comeback as mistress of ceremonies on a television show): fifth husband William M. Davey, 65, Wall Street yachtsman; after three years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
Married. Victor McLaglen, 62, hulking cinemactor (The Informer, Gunga Din); and Margaret Pumphrey, 48, Seattle socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Reno...
Divorced. Artie Shaw, 38, bandleader: by his sixth wife, Kathleen Winsor, 30, bestselling novelist (Forever Amber); after two years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...Also in Reno, after 14 months of marriage, Doris ("Richest Blonde in the World") Duke got a quick divorce on grounds of mental cruelty from Porfirio Rubirosa, onetime Dominican Ambassador to Argentina. Puzzled newsmen wondered how she had been able to get the divorce so fast. It was really quite simple, explained Doris: she had never given up legal residence in the state after her first divorce (from Playboy-Diplomat Jimmy Cromwell), because she had never gotten around to selling the house she lived in. Had she made Rubirosa a cash settlement? No, they had agreed on that in advance...