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...talkies, had a life that epitomized Thomas Hobbes's phrase for the life of the "natural" man: poor, nasty, brutish and short. Her mother was domineering and obsessed with sex; her stepfather was a sponging promoter of fake gold mines. Jean's second husband, Producer Paul Bern, shot himself two months after the wedding. She could not act, but her platinum hair, husky voice, and refusal to wear a brassiere were enough to gross millions at the box office for Howard Hughes and Louis B. Mayer. She died in 1937, age 26, of a kidney infection, leaving less...
...revealed for the prurient-minded in this "intimate biography" by Irving Shulman (The Amboy Dukes). Shulman includes facts that Harlow's doctors evidently did not have-some not even her hairdresser could know for sure. He asserts that Harlow had bouts of nymphomania. He says that Paul Bern was impotent and a sadist whose beatings caused Harlow kidney injuries -which ultimately killed her because Jean's mother, a Christian Scientist, refused to allow the star to be treated in time...
...years ago in Jaroslau, Austria (now Poland), he studied at the University of Vienna, went to work as a "Young Pioneer" in Palestine. Sensing greater profits elsewhere, Spiegel became a cotton broker, traveled to the U.S. on business. In Hollywood he so charmed M-G-M Producer Paul Bern that Bern put him under contract as reader and adviser...
...baroque to the contemporary, each was given the podium of the Symphony of the Air for a 15-minute tour. Half were dismissed with thanks. The preliminary rounds lasted five full days-a tense ordeal for the conductors, an exhausting one for the musicians. While the contestants conducted, Bern stein occasionally patrolled the aisles making elephant ears with his hands, the better to judge. When the semifinals arrived, twelve were left, including two Americans; a Pole got appendicitis, and then there were eleven...
Foreigners might consider this a modest enough venture into outside affairs, but it was bitterly debated before the federal Parliament at Bern finally approved the idea. "Why should we gallop into this Europeanization?'' shouted an angry legislator. "It should be done step by step." Citing the cost ($70,000) of joining the Council, Independent Representative Alois Grendelmeier of Zurich huffed, "Diplomatic missions are more than adequate for communicating with other states . . . our neutrality is getting dimmer and dimmer...