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Faye Emerson Roosevelt was recovering nicely from a minor razor gash on her wrist (eight stitches were taken, but only for what her doc Lor called "esthetic" reasons) and a major attack of tabloid headlines. After the first front-page flurries about an attempt at suicide had subsided, she and Elliott told their story: she had really cut her wrist accidentally while reaching for some aspirin...
That Wonderful Urge (20th Century-Fox) is a stale, wearisome slapstick sermon on the text "You, Too, Can Be Happy, Though Rich." The example is a tabloid reporter (Tyrone Power) who writes scurrilous stories about a chain-store heiress (Gene Tierney). Disguised as a playboy-author, he pursues her to Sun Valley, and she develops an odd urge to share more of her time-and maybe her millions-with him. To most reporters, this might seem like very sweet vengeance, if you can get it; to Reporter Power, the whole idea is repugnant...
...last week, pretty Actress Rita Hayworth, whose face and figure are her fortune, and the opulent Aly Khan, who has less visible means of support, passed through Manhattan bound for Britain, Switzerland and, possibly, marriage. Readers of the tabloid New York Daily News choked on their gum when they read that Miss Hayworth looked "as pale and haggard as though she had walked all the way from Hollywood [to meet her] gold-plated boy friend from mystic India." She scurried aboard the liner Britannic, the Daily News went on, over a gangplank "ordinarily used, dock workers said, to take bodies...
Said the World-Telegram's front-page headline: 8 COPS, 1 DOCTOR, 1 PRIEST, NEIGHBORS DELIVER TWINS. No, said the Herald Tribune, it was 10 POLICEMEN, INTERN, PRIEST . . . Said the Sun, not to be outdone: 12 COPS ASSIST . . . (By actual count, it was nine cops.) Then the tabloid Mirror found that a mother in New Jersey had given birth to triplets, also with police help. It wrapped up both stories under the headline of the week...
Said a headline in Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror last week: KING'S ILLNESS is REPORTED LESS CRITICAL. The story went on to say that the British Press Association had denied on "highest authority" that a leg amputation would be necessary. "The earlier denial," the story concluded, "was occasioned by an exclusive story in the New York Mirror...