People, Sep. 20, 1954

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

The day before Hurricane Edna swooped past New York, another, better-known phenomenon whooshed into Manhattan: Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe landed from an airliner and, said the tabloids, the damage, compared to Edna's, was inestimable. Obviously relishing every wolf call and whistle, Marilyn spent her time between a few days of picture-shooting (The Seven Year Itch) at a few nightclubs and Broadway shows, and with a few hundred avid autograph-hunting youngsters.

Off to Buenos Aires to take part in a sports festival honoring Argentina's President Juan Peron: onetime World's Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey.

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