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Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. In the night sky of literary erotica, no falling starlet shines quite like Nabokov's Dolly...
...admittedly not up to that of former years, the Reventlow Scarabs completed a double victory, won the 252-mile Nassau Trophy event to match an earlier triumph in the 112.5-mile Governor's Cup race. Flushed with success, Reventlow returned to New York and a rendezvous with Starlet Jill St. John, on whose pretty finger he had placed a spectacular ring set with 100 diamonds. There were marriage rumors, but Reventlow declared a more serious ambition: developing a smaller-engined car to compete on the international Grand Prix circuit...
...folk poetry. For Selznick he once flew "the entire town" of Zenda. Ont. (pop. 12) to Manhattan to attend the premiere of The Prisoner of Zenda. After the Bird set up his own office, he encouraged indignant cries of fraud by claiming that he had insured a client (Southern Starlet Margaret Tallichet) for $1,000,000 against the loss of her drawl. Smugly he was able to exhibit the policy; he had indeed insured Margaret-for one day, at the cost...
Divorced. Wanda Hendrix, 30, sometime movie starlet (Miss Tatlock's Millions, Prince of Foxes); by James Langford Stack Jr., 42, rich Nevada sport; after four years of marriage; in Reno...
Loping off into the sunset-and temporary bachelorhood-square-jawed Cinemactor Guy Madison reckoned he'd soon be back on the ranch with his bride of four years, sometime Starlet Sheila Connolly, and the three little Madisons. "There is no thought of divorce," said he. "I think when a girl has had three babies in rapid succession, it leaves her a little tired and depressed...