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Hollywood's gay young marrieds, Lana Turner and Lex (Tarzan) Barker, were reported to have kissed and made up, after a spat at a recent party. To celebrate the occasion, they did what any other sensible couple might do-if they were Lana and Lex. Reported Columnist Sidney Skolsky: "Lana and Lex, who just bought sports cars exactly alike, caused a sensation ... as they cruised down Sunset Boulevard side by side in their creamy-white convertibles with black and white upholstery...
Today, Hugh Matheson is a happy man. Between his race bets and his classes, which he handles with the silky self-assurance of a side-show barker, he makes a nice living doing what he likes most to do. He is not even bothered by the inevitable wise guy who asks him why he needs to teach if he can really run up big profits at the track. "This is just an excuse to get horse players together so I can sell the idea of a U.S. Sweepstakes," says the professor glibly. "A sweepstakes is just what this country needs...
Divorced. By Susan Hayward (real name: Edythe Marrener), 34, red-haired cinemactress (Snows of Kilimanjaro): Jess Barker, 39, onetime bobby-sox hero (The Texan Meets Calamity Jane); after ten years of marriage, two children; in Hollywood. She won the right to keep her part (better than $300,000) of their community property; he got the Ford station wagon and the right to visit their twin sons one night a week and alternate weekends...
...into a studio tank. Thus began a series of films about an ape man named Tarzan, a character based loosely on the hero of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books. The movie series, 28 in all, wore out ten Tarzans-among them Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Glenn Morris and Lex Barker-but never the plot. Such humdingers as Tarzan and the Mermaids and Tarzan's Magic Fountain found their way to the screens of thousands of movie houses...
Married. Arlene Dahl, 29, red-haired cinema siren (Here Come the Girls) ; and Fernando Lamas, 37, Argentine-born Hollywood swashbuckler (Rose Marie); both for the second time (her first: movie Tarzan Lex Barker) ; in Las Vegas...