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continued GOSSIP SECTION finally gotten married. But Bob is pretty reluctant to admit it in print. Gee, it doesn't seem possible. I can remember Vince Edwards when his wardrobe consisted of a pair of Levis and a sweatshirt. So now that he's famous he's named TV's "Best Dressed Actor!" Jack Wrather, Jr. yelled "foul" when Natalie Wood's little sister, Lana Wood left him to return to Mama the same week they said their vows in Juarez, Mexico. Their marriage will be annulled. Someday Connie Stevens and Gary Clarke probably will get married, but nobody will ever believe them. They have been calling "wolf" too often. The most recent wedding date they leaked out was Feb. 9, but they battled and split up again weeks before that altar day. However, Connie still has the diamond ring Gary gave her. She keeps it in the top right hand drawer of her dresser — when she's not wearing it on her right hand. Strange things always happen in Hollywood. Mike London and his bride, Lynn Noe, had the blessings and written permission of the actor's ex, Dodie, to become Mr. and Mrs. in a Mexican ceremony. How's that for a helpful ex-wife? Pretty rare, I'd say. Dinah Shore and her tennis player, Maurice Smith, are just awaiting the day her divorce from George Montgomery becomes final so they can wed. The reconciliation of Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney really took hold. They say she's expecting another child. If she is, it'll be her sixth. Scooping Around: The stork still hovers over the Janet Leigh-Bob Brandt household. . . . Eddie Fisher and Ann-Margret called it off. . . . Those crazy rumors that the end's in sight for Debbie Reynolds and Harry Karl keep floating around, even though Debbie says they aren't true. . . . Hope the rumors about the Kingston Trio aren't true, either. . . . The reason May Britt and Sammy Davis, Jr. are adopting a second child is elementary. It would be near suicide for her to have another, according to a close source. Christine Kaufmann's eighteenth birthday came and disappeared in January without her expected marriage to Tony Curtis. They were planning to get married on her natal day but the news leaked out in advance, and the potential newlyweds didn't want to make a circus out of their wedding so they decided to wait until such time they could sneak off and marry without flashbulbs popping in their eyes. I wonder how Suzanne Pleshette liked that story by a female writer describing how it feels to kiss Troy Donahue. I know Troy didn't like it — he sued the writer! It doesn't pay to be a real adventurer when you're used to a phony jungle on a sound stage. Gardner McKay found this out the hard way. His solo safari to South America cost him some weight. He picked up a bug that played havoc with his stomach. When he returned to Hollywood, Gardner looked like a walking skeleton with a black beard. He lost nearly thirty pounds in the battle to kill the bug with antibiotics. Each year two hundred and seventy-five thousand Americans die of cancer and, sadly, the statistics to start 1963 included Dick Powell and Jack Carson. Dick was brave to the very end. He refused to spend his dying hours in a hospital so he went home with his wife, June Allyson, and his family. Carson fought bravely, too. He kept his illness a secret from his loved ones till the very end. Hollywood has lost two marvelous guys. Everyone will miss them. It’s Doris Day and Marty Melcher again, but for how long? Until spring training, perhaps. I have to hand it to Mickey Hargitay. He has finally found the formula to keep Jayne Mansfield under his roof. Mickey is simply flexing his muscles at others, and Jayne's more jealous than ten Siamese felines at a dog show. However, it won't be jealousy that'll keep this marriage together — they're really in love — and always have been! I wonder if Marlon Brando did any weeping when France Nuyen announced her engagement to New York jeweler Ralph Destino. I can recall the day she did a lot of weeping over Brando. Those British have come up with their answer to Sandra Dee. She's Sarah Miles and I must say her performance with Laurence Olivier in "Term Of Trial" will make everyone take notice. THE END 9 Even Jean-Paul Belmondo has trouble recognizing Gina Lollobrigida in her “ old maid ” makeup for their new film “ The Crazy Sea.” 20 Terence Stamp's family wanted him to get a factory job, but he held out for acting. In “Billy Budd,” he proves his decision was wise.