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...discussed his troubles in a Santa Barbara jail cell last week, Dr. Gwynne Nettler, 38, moodily laid them to the difficulty of "seeing a channel . . . and moving upwards." He had been able to see a channel clearly when he was getting his Ph.D in sociology and psychology at Stanford, he said, and when he was teaching at the University of Washington. But when he came to Santa Barbara College (enrollment 1,634) four years ago, he began to "realize I wasn't growing...
Nettler gloomily recalled having been "trapped" before-as a student at U.C.L.A., as a riveter, as principal of a depression-era relief night school. At Santa Barbara, however, he tried new ways to grow. He began going out nights and burglarizing big homes, specializing in rugs, lamps and other bric-a-brac. Last year he also settled down to an adventure in extramarital living with a San Francisco divorcee named Francine Schaefer...
...month rent on their off-campus love nest. She spitefully threatened to expose his criminal career. Last July she even browbeat him into signing a confession. He sat down and typed out a list of his burglaries, blaming them on "neurotic individualism." Francine gave the confession to a Santa Barbara detective, who just as obediently kept a promise not to read it until she gave the word...
...Hollywood's chambermaids of the press, none picked up more telltale bits of underwear from the Franchot Tone-Barbara Payton-Tom Neal muss-up than did Florabel Muir, Hollywood tattler for the New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Mirror. Last week Actor Tone, who lost the fist fight but won the girl, took revenge. He spat squarely in Florabel's face...
Their encounter took place in Ciro's, an expensive Sunset Strip night-eyrie. Tone walked in with his wife and her maiden aunt, a Miss Fay Redfield of Cloquet, Minn. Barbara had just returned to town for three personal appearances, two in theaters and one before a federal grand jury which was interested in a dope-peddling murder (she had supplied the suspect's alibi). Franchot stepped to Florabel's table...