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...square tub) sagged, the ceiling fell on the enormous canopied bed. Flaky plaster sifted down on Natalie's 20-ft. marble dressing table, sank into a 6-in.-deep sheepskin rug, powdered the antique balustrades cut from the top of Marion Davies' beach castle in Santa Monica, drifted across the lanai, with its his-and-hers swimming pools (Nat's adorned with an antique Grecian female statue, R.J.'s with a Greek male). The result was almost too predictable; the house and the Wagners' marriage fell apart simultaneously...
Count Crash. Count Wolfgang von Trips, who could have managed his family's Hemmersback Castle in the German Rhineland as a moneyed aristocrat, had a desperate desire to win. All through the summer, Von Trips, 33, and Phil Hill, 34, of Santa Monica, Calif., teammates in Italian Auto Magnate Enzo Ferrari's racing contingent, had dueled across the Continent for the world title.* Before the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the pale, slim German nobleman was just in front of the taut, nervous American in the competition for the Grand Prix championship. Victory at Monza would have given...
...other Hollywood mellers, the land-rich scion of a long line of California Spanish dons (including an early Governor) who became an actor by choice, not necessity, was credited with persuading Fellow Vaudevillian Will Rogers to spice his previously silent lasso routine with Oklahoma patter; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...million by the age of 30, blew it manufacturing sport seaplanes, but in 1932 plunked down $40,000 for bankrupt Lockheed Aircraft, which he proceeded to build into the nation's 28th biggest industrial corporation, with 1960 gross sales of $1,332,289,000; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. As chairman and moving spirit of giant Lockheed. Bostonian Gross equipped the armed forces with aircraft and weapons ranging from the P-38 and the Constellation to the Polaris missile, also furnished the U.S. with its most famed cold war intelligence tool...
Villas & Beach Houses. Splashiest of the Kennedy homes is Peter and Pat Kennedy Lawford's nine-room, neo-Spanish beach house in Santa Monica, Calif. The former home of Movie Magnate Louis B. Mayer, the house is done in Metro-Goldwyn-Modrun. It has marble bathrooms, and in the living room, a movie screen rises from the floor at the touch of a button. To accommodate their four children, the Lawfords have converted Mayer's garden greenhouse into a playhouse; though the Pacific is right off their front door, they have a fresh water swimming pool that...