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...stickler for the till-death-do-us-part bit, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth played the fourth matrimonial walkout of her career as she left Crooner Dick Haymes. A violent quarrel about their careers and previous marriages-he, too, was trying marriage for the fourth time-split their two-year-old union. The parting left Rita in shock, Dick in tears. To intimates, and to almost any reporter who would listen, Dick confided: "I love Rita. A man is only in love once, and she has been my idol for 18 years." That same night, with Hollywood's Cocoanut Grove packed...
...Without a Horse. Lerner is more of a stickler for background than for plot. Because some of his finest locales are marred by modern improvements, he has assembled some 500 masking pieces: "You slap a proclamation over a Coca-Cola sign, cover light poles with trees, mask power lines with branches, introduce a coach-and-four and-whammo- you got a 17th century pastorale...
...schoolteacher lived an austere bachelor's life in a Left Bank jumble of books, unmarked exercise papers and unmade bedclothes. But Bidault was a stickler for neatness and order in personal appearance and in matters of the mind...
Routine. In Pacoima, Calif., halted by city police after a four-mile chase during which he allegedly committed 18 traffic violations (including speeding, making an illegal turn and running through a red light), Motorist William J. Stickler, 24, demanded: "What's the matter? I always drive this...
...also something of a stickler for patriotic traditions. On a wall in one room of his Gorinka estate, about 25 miles outside of Moscow, hangs a pink marble plaque which reads: "Emperor Alexander I, the Blessed Czar of all the Russias, danced in this room after having defeated the armies of Bonaparte in the Patriotic War." When his second wife tried to rip it down, Stalin said: "I'm a Georgian, so I must show great respect for all the relics of Russian history." One Bolshevik relic, the embalmed body of Lenin, is now a fake, says Budu. When...