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Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, now suing Husband No. 2, ex-Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, to gain permanent custody of their 9-year-old son, admitted she had separated from Husband No. 3, Cinemactor Gary Grant, with "no chance for reconciliation." ("He isn't happy and I think it's best we part now. Besides, it's unfair and dishonest to take advantage of his name . . . because I am fighting to hold my child...
...kids don't buy a bond out of their $50 they are looked down upon with scorn. Now, how in the hell can you expect these kids to send any money to their wives and children, aside from the monthly allotment, if their last dime has to go towards a bond...
...some $1,500,000 in safe-deposit boxes which were undiscovered until his death (TIME, March 27), was claimed as a relative by scores of Thompsons. One Wisconsin claimant asked for $20,000 because Big Bill had promised to remember him for once saving his life by pressing a dime under Big Bill's nose to stop its bleeding...
...months-a-year custodianship of nine-year-old son Lance, was surprised when ex-Husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow dropped his complete-custody suit (TIME, June 5), shocked when she heard that the Count had whisked the boy off to Canada. "Like any mother," said the five-&-dime Countess, "I am upset and distressed." The Count's attorney accused her of not bringing up Lance like "a gentleman and a scholar," explained the whisking: "The Count heard that Countess Barbara had threatened . . . to take the boy to Spain...
...Sportswriter Joe Williams (Scripps-Howard): "One of the bellhops at our hotel got a dime tip from a Kansas delegate and snorted, 'Where are all those liberals I've been reading about...