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Like her mother, she married a white man the second time around, Bandleader Lennie Hayton, and she is frank enough to admit that she married him because he was white. "It was cold-blooded and deliberate. I married him because he could get me into places a black man couldn't. But I really learned to love him. He was beautiful, just so damned good. I had never met a man like him." But when they announced their marriage in 1950 - three years after it had actually occurred - Hayton had to buy a shotgun and build a wall around...
Although few Negroes are inclined to take direct action when their race is slurred, sultry Songstress Lena Home, dining in a Hollywood restaurant with her white husband, Musical Director Lennie Hayton, took umbrage when a nearby patron voiced an insult at the singer and her race. Pretty Lena responded with drumfire-a hurricane lamp, some dishes and three ashtrays. Her startled detractor wound up with a gash over his eye. By the time cops arrived, cooler heads had prevailed, and no charges were brought by either side...
RICHARD NEIL HAYTON...
Michigan had lost three of its best players; Wally Maxwell, Neil Buchanan, and John Rendell, through ineligabilities ruling by the NCAA before the game started. In the course of the evening Tommy Rendell, Neil McDonald, Barry Hayton, and Wolverine captain Bob Pitt were all injured in collisions with varsity defensemen or varsity shots. Pitt was hit in the nose by a deflected drive off John Copeland's stick and had to have 25 stitches taken...
Marriage Revealed. Lena Horne, 32, sultry-voiced café au lait nightclub and cinema songstress (Words and Music); and Lennie Hayton, 42, onetime M-G-M music director; both for the second time; in Paris, in December...