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...from little people who needed our help. We didn't have any fun." In search of fun, Goodie quit his lush practice and accepted Governor Merriam's appointment as a $9,000-a-year judge. But in spite of occasional sensations that came his way, e.g., the Barbara Stanwyck-Frank Fay divorce trial, the Mary Astor child-custody case, Judge Knight found the bench as dull as the bar. "I knew exactly how the cases I was trying were going to come out an hour after they began. But a judge can't shut a lawyer...
...Limping along on an injured foot, Barbara Romack, 22, champion U.S. amateur woman golfer, lost the British amateur championship by spraying her drives all over the windswept Royal Portrush course in Northern Ireland. Winner, by 7 and 6: Scotland's Mrs. Jessie Valentine, 40, who first took the title 18 years ago when Barbara was just four years old. ¶ After two years of digging in newspapers and record books, Philadelphia Baseball Fan John G. Tattersall discovered that statisticians have been shortchanging oldtime Second Baseman Napoleon Lajoie. Credited with a .405 batting average in 1901, Nap actually...
Aging Hungarian Temptress (turned Manhattan jeweler) Jolie Gabor sadly announced the disengagement of her daughter, heartbreaking Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor, from heartbreaking Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, freshly disengaged from his fourth wife, Five and Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton. In tragic tones, Mama Gabor explained: "In Paris now they are having their last farewell. She can't marry Rubi, the darling boy, because he's so jealous." Then Mama grew more plausible: "Zsa Zsa will be a very big shot in Hollywood and in television. She would have to give that up to marry Rubi." Earlier in the week...
Divorced. Barbara Hutton, 42, five-and-dime millionairess who likes to stay indoors all day; by Porfirio Rubirosa, 46, Dominican playboy who likes the outdoors; after 16 months of marriage (all but 77 days of it in separation); on grounds of incompatibility; in Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic...
Paper Dolls. Designer McCardell comes by her deep feeling for an American way of design not only by birth but by the surroundings of her early environment. She was born (May 24, 1905) in historic Frederick, Md., where Francis Scott Key practiced law and where the Barbara Frietchie legend sprouted. Claire's father, Adrian Leroy McCardell, was an Evangelical and Reformed Church elder and Sunday-school superintendent, a 33rd-degree Mason, a Maryland state Senator, a member of the state tax commission, and president (like his father before him) of the Frederick County National Bank. Her mother, Eleanor...