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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 8. 1962 12 A i r"'' jri .,, MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDKORD. OHEGON BOTH SIDES - The two sides o the person-shine. At right, a lonely, insecure Marilyn ality of the late Marilyn Monroe are Ulus-leaves her New York apartment Nov. 11, 1960, tralcd in these photos. At left she Is the bub-after announcing her intention to divorce her bling sex goddess, soaking up the Florida sun-playwright husband, Arthur Miller. (UPI) Marilyn Monroe's Private Life Difficult Despite Movie Fame Editor's note: This ii the second of lhre dispatches on Ihe life and death of Marilyn Monroe, written by UPI Hol lywood corresponded V e r non Scoti, who was a close friend of the late star. By VERNON SCOTT Hollywood -DPIl- Marilyn Monroe's 37-23-37 measure ments and her cascade of pla tinum hair became universal sex symbols in the mid-1950s when she reigned as Holly wood's top glamour queen. Her initials, "MM," became famous in themselves. Cheesecake photos, cute quips (All I have on when I go lo bed is the radio); an nouncements that she wore no undergarments and sizz ling romances were all part of a classic studio build-up. Her movies, however, were uniformly mediocre, panned by the critics bin boxoffice hits with the public. Audiences wanted to see the sexy blonde who posed ;nude for a calendar picture. Terrified by cameras, know ing she couldn't act, Marilyn wiagled through her roles Willi a breathy falwllo to he 'come a caricature of herself. ' Among her credits were "Niagara," "Gentlemen Pre fer Blondes," "There's No Business Like Show Busi ness" and "Seven Year Itch." While her career boomed and her fan mail mushroom ed. Marilyn's private life be come increasingly difficult. She began regular psychiatric treatment and was subject lo physical breakdowns. Tried lo be Sexy She found it impossible lo live up to her reputation as a sex symbol off-screen. She wore tight skirts and sweat ers and si rove to be a femme fntalc, Security and happiness con tinued lo elude the emotion al girl. She studied dramatics with Lee Strasbcrg and form ed Marilyn Monroe Produc tions Willi photographer Mil ton Greene. The company never pro riiiccd a frame of movie film. Marilyn thought she had found the solution lo her problems with her marriage to Joe DiMaggio. He was as famous as she was. But after nine months Mari lyn announced, "we have ab solutely nothing to talk about," and asked for a divorce. The blonde beauty turned her attention lo work. Caused Cosily Delays Hollywood continued to cast her in second-rate pic tures. In turn she became more difficult. Her truancy on the set was so bad that casts and crews were left wail- iift.7&.iffi4V.'-i mm h' :.Y-"', -.':iV VX4,! Ike Receives Warm Greeting From De Gaulle Paris - IUPII - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, greeted heart ily as "Cher ami" by Presi dent Charles de Gaulle, today lunched with his former comrade-in-arms in the private apartments of France's head of state. De Gaulle met F.isenhower at the door of the Elysee Palace when Ihe former prcsi dent arrived. ' Observers said it was an unprecedented act of friendliness and warmth on the part of the French presi dent. De Gaulle called Eisenhow er "cher ami" (dear friend) and shook his hand vigorous ly. The two then posed smil ing for photographers and ex changed a few words in Eng lish before going inside for the lunch. First Meeting It was the first meeting be Iween Eisenhower and De Gaulle since the abortive sum mit conference in Paris fol lowing Ihe U2 incident in May, 19(10. Mine. De Gaulle received the 14 guests In the apart ments. Mrs. Eisenhower did not at tend the lunch. She was con fined to her room al the Hotel George V for another day on doctor's orders lo recuperate from what was said to be a touch of influenza. Eisenhow er's granddaughter. Barbara, 13. also stayed behind. But grandson David, 14, ac companied Eisenhower lo the lunch at the historic palace in the heart of Pans. David smiled when De Gaulle addressed him by his first name, but with a decided French pronunciation. YOUTH HELD Dennis Olio son, 16, an Arlington, S D., farm youth, has admitted the murder of Ihe five-member Hugh Paulson family. The youth, who lived less than a hall-mile from Hie Paulsons, was arraigned in Juvenile court. (UPI) 4-H NEWS Eagle Point Ranchers The Eagle Point Hamhers 4-H club held a meeting al the home of Nancy Carroll. The meeting was called lo ; order by our vire presidenl. I Darrell Dowell We discussed j record books and our leader. Mr. Dowell, talked lo us about 1 preparation for Ihe fair. : Mrs. Carroll served refresh menls and the meeting was; adjourned. We hope lo see everyone al Ihe (air. Carol Sue Burrill, Reporter. Antelope Club The monthly meeting o (the Antelope 4-H rluh was held in the home of Don Ander son. Friday. Aug 3 at 7 p m. One class of Hereford cows ' and one class of fal Hereford ; steers were judged before Ihe; Hireling The meeting was called lo order by the prrsi dent of the beef cluh, Alice Woolfolk. .lennifer N r v I n, j secretary, read the minutes, j Under new business Mr. Big- i ham said thai the fair board j would supply the first bedding : lor the livestock. A dairy meeting and a beef meeting were held after 'lie meeting Manl Hansen, Reporter Ing for hours at a time while Marilyn went over her roles with coach Paula Strasbarg (Lee's wife) in her dressing room. To enhance her standing as an actress she appeared with Sir Laurence Olivier in "The Prince and the Showgirl" which was roundly panned by the critics. Still, the calendar girl was on top of the heap, the suc cessor at 20th Century-Fox to Alice Faye and Betty Grable. At the height of her popu larity in 1956 she decided to forego Hollywood in favor of Improving her mind. She en rolled. I:i New York's Actor Studio and went on what she called a "culture kick," read ing the classics and associ ating with eggheads. One of her new friends was playwright Arthur Miller, a Pulitzer Prize winner. In June of 1956 they were mar ried secretly in a Jewish cere mony. Hollywood hailed Ihe mar riage as a mixture of brains and beauty and for several years Ihcy were happy. Mari lyn retired from movies for two years. In 1957 and I95R she did not appear before a camera. During this time she suf fered a miscarriage. She also was hospitalized on three oc casions for minor surgery. She relurned to Hollywood lo coslar with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in "Some Like It Hot," one of her most successful pictures. She wanted children from her marriage lo Miller. Brush With Scandal A second miscarriage in the waning months of her mar riage numbed Marilyn. Once again she directed her energy lo nor career and costarred with French aclor Yves Mon- land in "Let's Make Love. ' which provided her first brush with scandal. Rumor had it Monlaud and Ihe blonde beauty were in love off screen, despile denials on all sides. The pair, how ever, nm see one anolher while Miller was in New York and Montana" s wife, Simone Signorel, was in France. From thai point on in 19ti(l Marilyn's third marriage be gan lo slip away from her. Late that year she co- starred In what was lo be her final picture, "The Misfits." w itli Clark Gable. On location In Nevada and at Paramount Slndios In Hollywood Marilyn just went through Ihe motions of acting. She was discour aged, overweighl and peril ously overwrought emotional ly. Next: Marilyn, realising her career was nearly over, discovered there was noth ing left to fill the void. House Committee Presses Action on Federal Drug Act Washington -HOT- Chairman planned to rush its work on Orcn Harris of the House Commerce Committee prom ised today to complete hear ings on an administration bill to strengthen the federal drug act "even if it should take night sessions to do so." "In view of recent develop ments," he said, "the legisla tive situation with regard to drug legislation has changed materially." Harris did not say so directly but it was clear his reference was to re cent disclosures about the drug thalidomide, which has been blamed for many de formed births in Europe. The drug was widely used in Eu rope but only on an experi mental basis in the United States. New Controls Expected Health, Education and Wel fare Secretary Anthony J. Cel ebrezze said, meanwhile, that he probably would issue Fri day new, stiffer controls over distribution of new drugs in the nation. Harris indicated in a state ment that h I s committee new legislation to tighten ex i s 1 1 n g government regula tions on drugs. The Arkansas Democrat said the House group would resume hearings Aug. 20. Cclebrezze said today the new regulations would aug ment tighter drug controls proposed in legislation pend ing in Congress. The secretary, who has been in office less than two weeks. said the regulations would call for more thorough and fre quent reports- from manufac turers on the results of drugs being used in test programs. Test Program Thalidomide, a sedative which resulted in deforma- j tions in many newborn in- j fants, was never sold commer- j cially in the United States. I But it was distributed to 1.248 ! physicians in a test program. The U. S. distributor of the drug pressed the Food and Drug Administration to ap prove it for commercial sale in this country but Dr. Fran ces Kelsey, an FDA medical officer, refused to approve it. She suspected its tragic side effects because of an article she read in a British medical ournal. The drug was distrib uted commercially in Europe; and has been blamed for about 3,500 deformed births there. Counties Receive O&C Payments Portland HTI The nureau of Land Management sent checks totaling $15 4 million to IH Oregon counties entitled to share in revenues from Ihp Oregon and California (O&C) Giant Lands, the BLM said tnrlay. This represents 50 per cent of cross revenues from O&C timber sales of s:IO million during the last fiscal year. Doug las county received the largest share. $.1.RtiH.74. Four counties received more than $1 million and two more than SHOO. ()(;) Other counties and the amounts received Benton $4:15.82:1: Clacka mas $814,807: Columbia $241. 782: Coos SS0.V527- f'ni-rv $465,084: Jackson $2,414,741; Josephine $1,851,096 Klam ath $.168,06:1; Lane $2.376, 240; Lincoln $55,440; Linn $409, 6411; Marion $227,922; Multno mah $269,502, Polk $3:15.722; Washington $100.10(1. Tilla mook $67,780; Yamhill $110,-880. More Witnesses Called on Bill j For Satellite j Washington -IUPII- The Sen-1 ate Foreign Relations Com- mittee today summoned Ben jamin V. Cohen, a former White House figure to testify on the space communications bill. Cohen, a Washington law yer who has served as a State Department counselor and a U.S. delegate lo the United Nations and as a White House aide during the New Deal days, was one of two witnesses summoned. The other was Joseph L. Rauh Jr., another attorney and an offical of Americans for Democratic Action. Mem bers hoped il would be the final day of hearings on the bill. Friday Deadline Both witnesses were called at the request of the commit tee's three Democratic oppo nents to the bill. The legisla tion must be returned to the Senate floor by noon Friday. Liberal Democrats were ex pected to resume their fili buster against the bill then. In three previous days of hearings, the committee has questioned six administration officials, all of whom support ed the bill. Other congressional news: Crime - The House took up a bill that would provide criminal penalties for wilfully injuring or threatening to in jure a person for giving in formation lo the FBI or other government agencies regard ing investigations of nine kinds of interstate crime. It was part of Ally. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy's anti-crime pack age. Flour Congressmen lined up to try to persuade a House Commerce subcommittee that there's nothing wrong wilh fish flour. The bill the sub committee is studying would require the Food and Drug Administration lo lest the product for purity and safety and decide whether it should be licensed for sale. Billion Cherry Pies Available From Crop Washington - HTIi - Don't put off cherry pie baking until George Washington day in 1963. The department of agricul ture reports that more than a billion cherry pies can be marie from this year's crop of 169,000 tons of tart cherries. And the department figures a lot o( cherry pies must he baked before George's birth day to consume Ihe crop. REFUSEsTcOMMENT Washington HTO The De fense Department Tuesday re fused lo comment on a pub lished report that Secretary Robert S McNamara asked Ihe FBI to investigate Ihe in formation sources of Hanson Baldwin, military writer for the New York Times. Al though he refused comment on that report. Assistant De fense Secretary Arthur Syl vester denied that McNamara has ordered or approved 'shadowing'' of any newsmen in or out of the Pentagon. DENTAL PLATE SERVICE Cracktd or broken denturts repaired. Missing teeth re placed. 2 YEARS EXPERIENCE Clejnif9 ind Poluhing QUALITY DENTAL LAB 2J0S. C.Mr.l 772-601 3 YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE Premier SJwiviig OF PAINTINGS BY Jean Mowrey PARK VIEW DEPARTMENT STORE 5 NORTH MAIN STREET ASHLAND, OREGON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AUGUST 10th AND 11th, 1962 9:30 A.M. TO 5:30 P.M. Also at Southern Oregon Society of Artists LITHIA PARK, ASHLAND SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AUGUST llth AND 12th, 1962 f A 1 Vs Iverne, Marian and Paula RECORDING ARTISTS Have appeared at various well-known night spots in Reno, Lake Tahoe, Port land, Hawaii and Holly wood. Highly acclaimed everywhere they've been. Enjoy them tonight! 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