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To Marshall Field Jr., editor & publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, came a letter from Merchant Prince Marshall Field Sr., owner of the paper. In the letter, printed on the editorial page, Owner Field wrote: "When the editorial leadership of the paper was turned over to you [in 1950], I was certain that you would assume an independent and direct attitude, and this you have done. Your support of ... Eisenhower ... I both understand and respect ... I find myself in complete agreement with [Stevenson's] aims . . . This letter is ... in no way intended ... to influence your attitude . . ." Editor Field, who was the biggest contributor ($7,100) to Stevenson's 1948 gubernatorial campaign and who still rents Stevenson's 70-acre Libertyville, Ill. estate, noted tersely: "The letter . . . does not alter or diminish this newspaper's advocacy of Eisenhower for President . . ."
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From Vatican City came a report that talk of sainthood for Christopher Columbus is still going on. The movement began, said the New York Herald Tribune, more than 100 years ago, when a study of Columbus, published by Count Roselly de Lorgues, attracted the attention of Pope Pius IX. The Archbishop of Bordeaux later petitioned the Pope to begin the process of beatification of Columbus on the basis of his "humility, obedience, gentleness, resignation, charity, conformity to the divine will" and other virtues. Through the years, added the Tribune, the canonization of Columbus has been held up mostly because of the expense required for further historical research and the sneaking suspicion (not confirmed) that somewhere along the line, Explorer Columbus fathered a bastard son.
In Italy, on an inspection tour of U.S. Navy installations, Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball stopped off at the summer papal palace at Castel Gandolfo, was received with his wife and staff by Pope Pius XII.
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Former Queen Narriman, 18, wife of exiled King Farouk of Egypt, had no sooner left him to mind the baby on the Isle of Capri, than reporters began gossiping about a divorce. A Cairo newspaper reported that Narriman's family were trying to find a way for the Queen and her infant son King Fuad II to return to Egypt to give encouragement to the monarchists. In Lausanne, Switzerland, where Narriman had gone with her mother for some medical treatment, the Queen was said to have consulted lawyers about a divorce. At week's end, as Narriman returned to Capri, her chubby husband met her at the boat and dampened all the rumors by greeting her with a public hug & kiss.
Thrice-married Lana Turner, whose name has been linked romantically with Argentine Singer Fernando Lamas, her leading man in The Merry Widow, decided to call it off, now that the picture is released and doing well. The romance, the studio announced, was over, but Lana and Lamas are still "good friends."
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Crooner Frank Sinatra confessed that he and his bride Ava Gardner had had a mild rift—just something "that might happen between a man and a wife"—but there was no reason for reporters to suspect a divorce. A few days later, Frankie flew home to Hollywood, discovered that Ava and Lana Turner (see above) had taken off together for Mexico.