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Divorced. Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 28, lion-shooting tin-plate heir ($9,000,000) ; and Latin-eyed Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 23, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000); after four years of marriage (his second); in Palm Beach. She got custody of Sandra Emerson Topping, 3, and Henry Junkins Topping...
...revealed was the fifth marriage and divorce (eleven days later) of glittery, fire-haired Patent Medicine Heiress Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney. Briefly questioned in Manhattan was Husband (in name only) No. 5, a Swedish waiter who said he was 4-F (adenoids). Having lost her passport to the State Department, which disapproved of her Nazi friends, the heiress had paid the hard-up waiter $1,500 to make her a Swede, promptly got a Swedish passport, shortly skipped to South America with some half-million dollars of her fortune. Now living in a white-columned villa in Buenos Aires, she says...
Slightly Dangerous (M.G.M.) is a mildly loony comedy starring Lana Turner and Robert Young. In some never-never prewar world, it reveals a small-town soda jerkess who tries every trick from feigned amnesia to the long-lost-heiress act to crash the gate to money and glamor. On her silly trail throughout is her soda-fountain boss, Robert Young, with whom she finally clinches in a motel bedroom. The dialogue of this scene is laundered white for all possible audiences. But Lana, in a costume change from her conventional sweater, still manages to undo all attempts at censorship...
...Kids" movie style, hands up, faces scowling, three hoodlums-"Crabs" Kravish, 17, "Amateur" Schenold, 19, and "Ray" Weglowski, 17-surrendered to the coppers. That day, with two companions who made a getaway, they had stolen three cars, stuck up a priest, kidnapped and released a 17-year-old Chicago heiress, Helen Priebe, and her 18-year-old escorts...
...Heiress Marjorie Gould Drexel Gundry, 27, great-granddaughter of Jay Gould, daughter of Philadelphia's Main Line Anthony J. Drexels, offered no defense against charges that she had stolen a yacht captain from his wife, who thus won a suit for alienation of affections. Mrs. Axel Julius Danielson, wife of the yacht captain, who worked for Mrs. Gundry, asked $100,000 damages...