Word: humes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twigs sprout from Hollywood's family trees. There, for example, in the splendid boarding house of Hotel Magnate Conrad Hilton was Cineminx Eva Gabor, sister of Hilton's ex-wife Zsa Zsa, whose former husband, Cinemenace George Sanders, had recently moved out with his new bride Benita Hume, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman. Eva, it so happens, is a former potential step-aunt of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor (through Liz's first marriage to Hilton's playboy son Nicky), thus also ex-step-great-aunt, two marriages removed, of another guest in the Casa, fledgling Cinemogul Mike...
Married. George Sanders, 52, suave Hollywood heavy; and Benita Hume Colman, 52, actress, widow of Actor Ronald Colman; both for the third time (his second was Cinemagyar Zsa Zsa Gabor); in Madrid, where he is on location for Solomon and Sheba. Benita is a British subject. Sanders, born of British parents in St. Petersburg, Russia, will give up his U.S. citizenship...
Hefty Barmaid. Freed last spring for good behavior, Hume took bold advantage of the fact that he could not be tried again for the same crime. To the tabloid Sunday Pictorial he brazenly sold for about $10,000 his account of how he murdered Setty (TIME, June 16). He became a freehanded spender in the shadier bars of London's West End, and as before, women proved susceptible to his curly black hair and his blue-eyed, open countenance. A hefty Mayfair barmaid lost her $800 savings to Hume but still loves him; a pretty air hostess at London...
...anonymity's sake, Hume changed his name legally to Brown, thus entitling him to obtain a bona fide passport in that name. But one of anything is scarcely enough for a man like Hume: he soon had a second passport made out to "John Stephen Bird, company director, Liverpool." Thus equipped, Hume began appearing under various aliases in Montreal, Zurich, New York, Frankfort, Los Angeles, without ever being recognized. He spent most of the time in Switzerland, combining petty thievery with his courtship of auburn-haired Divorcee Trudi Sommer, 28, a Zurich beauty-shop owner. To lonely-hearted Trudi...
...trip last August was to London in pursuance of a simple but ingenious scheme for raising money: Hume planned to rob a bank close to the international airport and then return to the Continent on a commercial plane for which he had made a reservation. Hume chose a branch of the Midland Bank in a quiet side street in Brentford, outside London. He shot down a bank clerk, scooped up some $3,000, and was in an airplane and winging his way over the Channel before Scotland Yard had a physical description of the robber. Three months later he duplicated...