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Exit Society. Most U.S. heiresses got either what they wanted or what they deserved. At the hub of their international set was the portly, roguish Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, and moneyed maidens with broad Midwestern accents found Queen Victoria's son much more democratic than Manhattan's formidable Mrs. Astor and her chosen 400. At one time, the prince was much smitten by a Cleveland-born Miss Chamberlain. She reportedly cooled his ardors with...
...helmet and a British officer's short jacket and moodily marching about with his poodles (names: Hedda and Louella) and his vast television dreams. Occasionally, his reverie may be shattered by a cry from his third wife,* blonde Musicomedienne Vivienne (Pal Joey) Segal: "For heaven's sake, Hub, take off that damn helmet...
Nowadays few people except Wife Vivienne would dare talk so impiously to Hub Robinson. At 54 he bosses the flashiest, costliest series in television: the Ford-sponsored NBC lineup of 39 weekly go-minute spectaculars. With a budget of $15 million, Hub Robinson can recruit some of the brightest players and producers-as he proved last week in his third Ford special, Henry James's eerie classic...
...Catch Stars. To get his star, Hub Robinson had flown to Scandinavia, tempted Actress Bergman with a reported $100,000, plus ownership of the show in Europe. While in Europe, Robinson also talked Alec Guinness into making his U.S. TV bow (scheduled Nov. 10) by captivating him with a comic short story about a Machiavellian bank clerk. For forthcoming Ford specials, Robinson has also hooked Jack Benny, George Burns, Marian Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Jimmy Stewart, Ethel Merman. Coos one Robinson recruit, Roz Russell (whose coldness to TV he thawed by offering her a thumping $100,000 for the first Ford...
Direct Methods. At the hub of the argument is Stanford's new dean of the School of Medicine, Pediatrician Robert Alway, 54, a hard-driving administrator whose passionate interest is to improve his school. He is also a man of tough, direct methods. When he was chosen as dean last year, med-school department heads submitted their resignations as a matter of course. Customarily, the new dean refuses. Not Alway...