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After a fruitless search through France, Italy and England, Cinemactress Jane Russell, who adopted a baby girl in California this year and would like to add an imported youngster to her family, arrived in Germany for a tour of the Frankfurt orphanages. When requirements proved too stiff (a year's residence in Germany before taking the child out of the country), she started shopping for two other items, an old-fashioned German-language Bible and some Army post-exchange perfume. But the whole trip turned out a failure. The PX was closed, and there were no Bibles answering her specifications for sale.
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art announced a "notable" acquisition. Singing Cowboy Gene Autry in person presented an example of his art: a print of Mule Train for the film library.
Mrs. Eva Wakefield, granddaughter of Robert G. Ingersoll, the famed 19th Century agnostic, told police that a Manhattan gypsy had temporarily converted her into believing the old handkerchief trick: that money tied in a handkerchief would double itself. She had lost faith, however, and wanted the cops to try to recover her $18,507 offering.
Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, wife of the symphony conductor, postponed her suit against the Government in which she is trying to collect $12,285 in overpaid taxes. Her reason: she expects her second baby in January.
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