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Said she: "After his terrific concentration on the trial all week—like walking a tightrope—the mere sustained effort of conversation fatigues Harold. He simply cannot spare his energy talking to people." For relaxation on weekends in Westhampton, N.Y., the judge has been rereading all of Dickens ("So far removed from the trial"), playing golf, billiards, and going out in his boat to watch the sailboat races.
Cinemactress Ginger Rogers, 38, decided to divorce third husband Jack Briggs, 29, onetime movie bit player, after 6½ years of marriage. Not only did he "refuse to come home at a decent hour like a good husband should," Ginger complained, but he never even produced "a good, solid excuse."
The Little Things That Count
Miss Arizona, trim (5 ft. 4 in., 106 lbs.), brunette Jacque Mercer, a rancher's daughter from Litchfield, was crowned Miss America of 1949. She won over a field of 52, after preliminary victories in the bathing-suit division and talent class (she wowed them with a dramatic reading of the death scene from Romeo and Juliet). Her prizes: a $5,000 scholarship (which she hopes to take at Stanford), a $3,000 Nash sedan. Her plans: "Marriage first, a career second."
White House Aide Harry Vaughan sized up the situation in Pittsburgh, where he drew more vociferous cheers than his boss during a brief personal appearance: "I did pretty well. I might come back here some time and run for sheriff."
Hollywood blandly announced plans to film a biography of Sigmund Freud.