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...Manhattan, Hattie stirred up the natives with equal success. Wealthy women and celebrities flocked to her salon (among her clientele: Gertrude Lawrence, Clare Boothe Luce, Barbara Hutton, the Duchess of Windsor, Joan Crawford). Although several famed designers learned their craft in her workrooms, Hattie was never a designer in the strict sense. Her talent was for blue-penciling gowns, like an editor, and her critical decisions ("No, no, that sleeve is out I") were almost always right. The Carnegie foundation for a wardrobe-the "little Carnegie suit" became a basic garment for well-dressed women, and was later translated...
However, it was not considered cricket for a professional to become the team captain. The first man for whom that unwritten rule was broken is Yorkshireman Len Hutton, one of Britain's alltime cricket greats...
...revolution came in 1952, after two decades during which English teams led by gentlemen had been beaten in the test matches with Australia (where such distinctions are taken less seriously). In desperation, the English finally selected Player Hutton to be captain. Hutton did his duty: he beat the Australians and brought home the Ashes.* Last year, under his leadership, England won again. Hutton became a national hero. But at 39, he was past his prime; a wartime accident had left one arm shorter than the other, and he had trouble holding his own against speedball bowlers. Last week...
Bilgray created a "Hallelujah" cocktail in her honor, causing her husband of the moment, Singer David Hutton, to start a suit for $1,000,000 (which he dropped after a satisfactory flurry of headlines...
Married. Barbara Hutton, 42, five-and-dime millionheiress; and Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 46, onetime top German tennis star; she for the sixth, he for the second time; in Versailles. France (see PEOPLE...