First Item - Artie Shaw to be divorced

Louella Rose Oettinger Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and screenwriter. At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide.

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“First Item - Artie Shaw to be divorced.” Louella Parsons. Radio broadcast, October 17, 1948.