People, Nov. 15, 1954

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The spit-and-polish commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., sourly noted the uniformed posteriors of some of his men, ordered all Marine commanders to take "immediate steps" about "the trousers too short and too tight in the seat."

While Cinemactor Marlon (Désirée) Brando was holed up in Italy trying to escape the "persecution" of newsmen, his fiancée, onetime Artists' Model Josane Mariani-Berenger, 20, just before taking off from Paris for New York, submitted to some persecution and sounded a trifle hazy...

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