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After more than a year spent denying the existence of the most irregular triangle since the scalene, one of the sides gave in. Leaving Husband Richard stranded with Actress Elizabeth Taylor in neighborly suites at London's Dorchester Hotel, Sybil Burton flew to New York with her two daughters, Kate, 5, and Jessica, 3, and announced tersely that "all arrangements, financial and otherwise, have been concluded" for a separation...
...meets each child's needs without frustrating him." The few complaints are mostly from parents whose kids seem to be moving slowly. "The plan makes a wonderful scapegoat if the school can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear," says Principal Miriam Burton...
...left knee while on the set of her new film, The VIPs, and wound up resting her pretty bones in a wheelchair after what was described as "manipulative surgery," meaning resetting the knee. Poor Richard had his troubles too. Getting into a cab near Paddington railway station, Burton found himself competing for the ride with six narrow-panted Teddy boys. "Suddenly somebody lunged out," recounted Burton afterward. "Then a really small boy got me on the ground and I was helpless. They kicked me all over." The rascals got the cab, and Dickie got a black eye, a torso full...
...Said Burton's adhesive wife Sybil: There's really no reason to quibble. No matter what Liz says, perforce, I'm not giving Dick a divorce, And the news that I am is pure fribble...
...money earned overseas. Actually a maximum of $35,000 can still be clear, but that's all. Holden will probably stick by his loyalty to Switzerland anyway. Where else could he have George Sanders, Gregory Peck, Charlie Chaplin, Yul Brynner. Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Stewart Granger, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Ustinov, Noel Coward, David Niven, Jack Palance and James Mason for approximate neighbors...