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...success as a husband. His second wife, Joan Blondell, complained in divorcing him that he always had two big-deal telephones going at once. June Allyson, his third, filed for divorce earlier this year (after 16 years of marriage) with the complaint that she had become an office widow. When the Powells went cruising to Santa Catalina Island on their 56-ft. motor sailer, Dick would answer the week's mail by Dictaphone on the way out and do little but read scripts on the way back. Betweentimes, he was busy with a variety of sidelines that included directing...
...fingertip brushes with love. Touched by their mutual need, Shannon asks if they might not make a go of life together. It is Hannah's kindness to be cruel. "Accept whatever situation you cannot improve," she has told him, and releases him to the zesty affections of the Widow Faulk. The moral: human nature is a constant, not a variable, and love, like water, seeks its own level...
Died. Rachel Young La Follette, 67, button-bright widow of Wisconsin's late Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr., whom she met while working as a stenographer in his father's office and served as secretary and political adviser for five years before their 1930 marriage; after a brief illness; in Manhattan...
Died. Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait Wilson, 89, stately widow of President Woodrow Wilson; after a long illness; in Washington on the 105th anniversary of her husband's birth and within hours of the dedication of the new Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge over the Potomac. A Virginia-born belle descended from Pocahontas, Edith Galt entered Wilson's circle through her friendship with his daughter, married the World War I President in the White House on the eve of the hard-fought 1916 election campaign, became his cherished confidante during the taxing war years, shared both his triumphant postwar tour...
...Ireland, too, suffered from the Queen's neglect as Scotland gained from her affection and her habit of spending all her summers at Balmoral. In Scotland's stern Calvinist circles, no one stole food at parties, but no one ate hot food on Sunday; and a widow, entering a theater for the first time in her life, suddenly saw a sign reading TO THE PIT, and raced frantically back to the pavement...