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Last week at Newport News, Va., Mrs. James Forrestal, widow of the first Secretary of Defense, christened the supercarrier, named in her husband's honor. The dreamboat, wide enough to have the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth placed side by side on her flight deck, moved 35 feet in a flooded drydock. In a year she would be ready for action. The Forrestal's cost, with planes: more than a third of a billion dollars (about $372 million). The Navy has three more supercarriers on order, plans another in the upcoming budget, hopes eventually...
...fees. It also marooned Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26, very blonde Miami Beach divorcee who married Astor in August, ditched him in September, sued him last month for support money. Dolly, who had guilelessly fancied herself No. 3, was left, according to the court, still a lonely grass widow, never legally married to Astor and apparently powerless to take anything out of his heritage...
...office films for November, according to the trade sheet Variety: 1) White Christmas (Paramount), 2) A Star Is Born (Warner), 3) Black Widow (20th Century-Fox), 4) This Is Cinerama (Independent), 5) Sabrina (Paramount...
Finally, motion pictures have taken the final stride toward valuable utilization of the extra screen area at their command. The big selling point of The Black Widow was that it represented the first time a "Crime of Passion has appeared on Wide screen." Mood setting is obviously the proper function for the embarrassing space on either side of CinemaScope action. Unfortunately, this particular picture just drudges along with extra chairs, rugs, lamps, desks, and the other paraphernalia of interior films. What might have been done confounds the imagination...
Died. Annie Thomas Dewey, 77, mother of New York's Governor Thomas Dewey (an only child), widow of George Martin Dewey Jr., Owosso postmaster and publisher of the Owosso Times; of a heart attack; in Owosso, Mich...