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Thus with a cynic's lullaby closed the final chapter-just 24 years ago this month-of one of the most tempestuous custody battles ever fought. The baby was eleven-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt, solemn-faced, button-cute heiress to a $4,000,000 trust fund, headlined in that Depression year as the "Poor Little Rich Girl." Mother was Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, one of the most publicized Continental gadabouts of the day, who lost the fight for her daughter's custody-except for weekends (with Christmas and July tossed in)-to her sister-in-law, wealthy Art Patroness...
Last week, in New York's Supreme Court, came a haunting echo of the old refrain. This time Baby Gloria, now thrice wed and svelte at 35, was the mother battling for control of her own children, Stani, 8, and Christi, 7. Against her was arrayed the forbidding personality of husband No. 2 (1945-55),* Orchestra Conductor Leopold Stokowski, famed for the way he overbutters his Bach. This time Mother was the victor...
Crossing razor-edged affidavits in a Manhattan court. Heiress Gloria ("Poor Little Rich Girl") Vanderbilt Stokowski Lumet, 35, joined battle with her ex-husband, white-maned Leopold Stokowski, over custody arrangements for their two sons, Stan. 9, and Christopher, 7. Insisting that Stokowski is really 85 (72, he claims) and "seeks to be restored to the tyrannical and despotic power he asserted over me when we were married," Gloria, herself a onetime child-custody pawn, disclosed that she once warned Stokie in a letter: "I do not want my boys exposed to your paranoid attitudes." In rejoinder, the maestro tartly...
Markman and Miss Grant are in Cambridge for discussions with the Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Festival. Miss Gloria Steinem, director of the Service, reported yesterday, "the USFC leaders came here to ask us for support. We refused to give any support, because we do not want to affiliate ourselves with any organization...
...Miss Gloria M. Steinem, director of the Service, yesterday announced some of the organization's publication plans. These include a 50 page pamphlet on the festival and a book discussing the questions which foreign students ask most frequently...