People, Oct. 14, 1957

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

When soul-searching Author F. Scott Fitzgerald came to Hollywood in 1937, he left his wife Zelda behind in a North Carolina mental home. He soon became a great and good friend of Gossipist Sheilah Graham, who was then a movieland correspondent for some British newspapers. Hard work and harder drinking helped kill Fitzgerald after their hopeless romance had fitfully endured for more than three years; he died in Sheilah's company in 1940. Sheilah was left with some 150 love letters, a long poem in...

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