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What makes him go wrong is a little (you know the word) played by Barbara Stanwyck, who would have been just as adequate had she stayed brunette. She's plenty adequate now, though...
...Barbara Hutton, about to assume her six-months-a-year custodianship of nine-year-old son Lance, was surprised when ex-Husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow dropped his complete-custody suit (TIME, June 5), shocked when she heard that the Count had whisked the boy off to Canada. "Like any mother," said the five-&-dime Countess, "I am upset and distressed." The Count's attorney accused her of not bringing up Lance like "a gentleman and a scholar," explained the whisking: "The Count heard that Countess Barbara had threatened . . . to take the boy to Spain...
...Paramount) is the season's nattiest, nastiest, most satisfying melodrama. James M. Cain's novelette was carnal and criminal well beyond screen convention. Director Billy Wilder's casting is just as unconventional. Naturals for their parts are Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman capable of murder; Barbara Stanwyck as the unprintable blonde (for the occasion) who exploits his capabilities; Edward G. Robinson as the insurance-claims sleuth who sniffs out the flaws in their all-but-perfect crime...
Married. Lieut. (j.g.) Endicott ("Chub") Peabody II, 23, Harvard's All-America guard in 1941, son of the Rt. Rev. Malcolm Endicott Peabody, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York, grandson of Groton School's famed founder Endicott Peabody; and Barbara Welch Gibbons, 22, Bermuda socialite; in Manhattan...
Born. To Marine Major Joseph Jacob Foss, 29, fighter-pilot ace (26 Jap planes. Congressional Medal of Honor) ; and June Foss, 24: their first child, a daughter, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Name: Cheryl June. Weight...