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Last week Katherine Bellamann, sixtyish, promised to "continue the story" on 1 new radio show called Kings Row (weekdays, 3:15 p.m. E.S.T., CBS). Scripted by the Bellamanns' good friend Welbourn Kelley, the radio version of Kings Row has most of the old characters, the same Midwestern scene, but takes place in 1951 instead of the 1890s. The show seemed good enough to bring Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. back to daytime radio after a nine-year absence. What listeners heard had a familiar sob-and-sacrifice ring: noble young Dr. Parris Mitchell outwitted villainous Fulmer Green, gently disengaged...
...Manhattan on business, pert Perfume-Maker Mile. Gabrielle ("No. 5") Chanel, sixtyish, had a tip for American women: "Age is no matter. You can be ravishing at 20, charming at 40, and irresistible the rest of your life...
Died. Carroll ("Cal") Shilling, sixtyish, hell-for-leather No. 1 jockey of his day (969 winners in 3,838 races), rider of victorious Worth in the 1912 Kentucky Derby; in Elmont, N.Y. Suspended since 1912 for rough riding, Shilling took to the bottle, was found dead under a horse van near the Belmont Park track with 99? in his pocket...
Marriage Revealed. Will L. Clayton, 69, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1945-47) and longtime chairman of the Houston firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest cotton brokers; and Susan Vaughan Clayton, sixtyish, who had divorced him last May after 47 years of marriage; on Aug. 6; in Jasper, Alta...
...sequel to The Jolson Story, which three years ago became, to almost everybody's surprise, a smash boxoffice hit. The Jolson Story had wide repercussions in show business. It put the old Jolson songs of the '20s on the nation's jukeboxes. It gave Jolson himself, sixtyish and almost forgotten, new fame & fortune...