The Press: Compromised by a Cutie

The on-again, off-again romances and marriages in Hollywood give newspaper and magazine editors the willies. They never know when they will be caught cooing over a couple that has stopped billing. When Shirley Temple and John Agar suddenly called it quits, the Detroit Free Press was thus booby-trapped. Its Sunday magazine section, which had gone to press before the divorce announcement but was distributed two days later, pictured the “happily wedded John Agars.” But the Free Press neatly recovered the fumble in a note to its readers in the news section: “This was our darling, dimpled Shirley Temple, and we never thought SHE’d do this to us . . . So here’s the Free Press− 119 years old, mind you−compromised by a little Hollywood cutie. We ain’t ever going to trust an actress again.”