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...Dedham, Mass., Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoy's lawyers told a probate court that the once-plump Woolworth heiress was down to an emaciated 88 Ibs. and desperately needed her son Lance, 13, with her until the end of the summer. Babs's friends in Venice, on the other hand, said that she was well enough to swim at Lido Beach in a sleek black suit. Lance's father, Court Haugwitz-Revent-low (Barbara's second husband), who wants his son back in August, refused to comment. Wise by now in the ways...
Five minutes later, on his way to the death cell, the killer paused to chide his pretty, 21-year-old sweetheart, Barbara Stephens. What business did she have selling a story of their friendship to the Sunday newspaper, The People? Didn't she know that he had already sold exclusive rights to his own story ("I Was a Vampire") to News of the World? Killer Haigh, who had signed the ?5,000 ($20,000) contract months ago to get the money for his defense, felt honor-bound to fulfill...
...People spread Barbara's breathlessly ghostwritten story all over Page One. Said she: "I feel bitter about what he [Haigh] has done but I cannot lose my love for him. If he could walk out a free man, I would walk beside him . . . Never once did he do anything of which my mother would be ashamed." But News of the World's 8,000,000 readers would have to wait for Haigh's own story. Until his appeal had been heard, English law, safeguarding his rights to the end, would not permit Haigh to prejudice his case...
...Hollywood firmament, a starlet is a heavenly body twinkling only fleetingly on the screen but readily visible in publicity stills. Once in a while an ambitious starlet rebels against this fate. Three years ago Barbara Bates did just that. A wartime pin-up favorite while on the Universal lot, Barbara moved over to Warners', where she got her first speaking parts; her dramatic aspirations thus encouraged, she balked at posing for any more leg-art pictures...
Last week, still thinking about the case of Barbara, Universal-International struck a blow for art (hip, thigh & bosom division). The studio's legal experts fashioned a new clause to go into all starlet contracts: for the first five years of her term, the starlet must yield to the company's right to make "reproductions of her physical likeness, leaving it to the discretion of publicity and advertising directors to determine what is a reasonable degree of exposure of her pulchritudinous assets . . ." As a sample of its discretion under the new charter, the studio pictured the assets...