Word: huttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barbara Hutton, 34, was having some more despite her famed swearing-off statement of last April. ("You can't go on being a fool forever," she said then.) The synthetically svelte, fashionably deadpanned heiress married her fourth in a snowy Swiss town. At the start it was rather picturesque and dashing. (She added an extra dash of the picturesque by screwing up the famed deadpan for photographers.) The groom was a Lithuanian prince* -handsome Igor Troubetzkoy. Trotting about like a jolly uncle who knows how to handle these things was International Playboy Freddie McEvoy, who a lot of people...
...Heiress Hutton had developed the snuffles. Presently a doctor was summoned. The bride took to bed with a cold, and Igor got an offer from Hollywood...
...Stock Exchange for publicly declaring that he was "in the gambling business" (TIME, Jan. 20), was back in the business this week. Without explaining itself, the Exchange quietly reinstated him as a customers' broker, effective a month to the day after he had been fired by E. F. Hutton & Co. When it fired him, Hutton paid Haskell a month's salary. Haskell had had a lot of deserved embarrassment-and a month's vacation...
...Manhattan court last week Gambler Alvin Paris was on trial for attempting to fix a professional football game (he was later convicted). First prospective juror was William H. Haskell, a customers' broker for E. F. Hutton & Co. Haskell claimed he could not be impartial in a gambler's trial because: "I'm in the gambling business myself...
...crack was effective: it got Haskell out of jury duty. It also got him out of his job. The New York Stock Exchange, which spent $750,000 last year on ads to keep callow lambs from gambling in the market, revoked Haskell's registration. Hutton, which also thinks "gambling" a naughty word, fired him. Said Exchange President Emil Schram: "He has a mistaken conception of the business in which he has been engaged...