John Jacob Astor III, globular 35-year-old great-great-grandson of the original, was recuperating on his New Jersey estate from a case of measles.
Princess Margaret, her measles all gone now, was off to a wedding.
Orson Welles, 33, sent his old school (Todd, in Woodstock, Ill.) his regrets at not being able to attend the school's centennial celebrations. He was abed in Rome with chicken pox. "Think of it—at his age," murmured the headmaster. "Still the boy wonder."
Cinemactress Peggy Cummins, who wears a four-leaf-clover charm, skidded on a highly polished floor, landed on the charm,...
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