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Marriage Revealed. Artie Shaw, 42, bandleader and author ( The Trouble With Cinderella), whose former wives have included Cinemactresses Lana Turner (No. 3) and Ava Gardner (No. 5) and Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor (No. 6); and Cinemactress Doris (The Lost Weekend) Dowling, 29; he for the seventh time, she for the first; on June 19; in North Canaan, Conn...
Five federal judges decided that Novelist Kathleen Winsor is no novelist, thus bearing out the literary critics who always claimed that Forever Amber, her lusty epic of Restoration England, is no novel. The question before the court: should the $165,000 Kathleen got for movie rights to Amber be taxed as author's income or, at a lower rate, as a non-author's capital gain? The judges' ruling: "The book was written . . . primarily because she enjoyed" it, not with a publication "purpose in mind." To Capital-Gainer Winsor and former husband (No. 1 of three) Robert...
...spotlight on Soviet power, and to divert unrest by playing up nationalism. Last week Ana Pauker was quietly dropped from the roster of secretaries of the Rumanian Communist Party and the Politburo. Along with her went Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu, both Moscow-trained Communists. Into the amber spot at stage center the Communists pushed Gheorghiu-Dej, the man left in prison back in 1941. He became Premier...
Through the growing darkness of the little panel wherein she holds court, Mona Lisa keeps smiling silently on mankind. In illuminating one by one her amber facets, the critics have only succeeded in making her more dazzlingly mysterious...
...guillotine and sailed, still unjaded, for the U.S. After a sale of 300,000 copies in France, Novelist Cecil Saint-Laurent's account of all this has now been published in the U.S. It may bring out customers who haven't read a book since Forever Amber...