Gossip Friday: Bereaved and Fishing

From February 6, 1942:

Grants River Pas, Ore.–Clark Gable, bereaved film star who wanted to get away from picture people after the sudden death of his wife, blonde Carole Lombard, almost found the canyon of the Illinois river southwest of here a Hollywood meeting place this week.

He fished there for steelhead trout Wednesday. The next day, Ginger Rogers and Margaret Sullavan, also vacationing at Ginger’s ranch, tried their luck in the same stream.

Gable arrived at his old fishing haunts, We-Ask-U Inn, on Monday, and by local newspaper arrangement his presence was not revealed until he left Friday morning, accompanied by Harry Fleishmann.