Word: loretta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Grant Withers, 55, once popular cinemactor who in 1930 eloped with 17-year-old Loretta Young, eventually chalked up five wrecked marriages, hit the bottle ("They threw a net over me and hauled me to a sanitarium"), was reclaimed by his friend John Wayne, who got him parts in Wayne pictures (Wake of the Red Witch, Fort Apache); by his own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); in North Hollywood...
...open casket and held her husband's hand while the organ played Irving Berlin's I'll Be Loving You Always. Cinemactor Cesar Romero eulogized his pal: "He was a beautiful man. He was beautiful outside, and he was beautiful inside. Rest well, my friend." Actress Loretta Young caused a stir in the chapel by arriving in Oriental makeup from a stint before TV cameras. Outside, there were loud cheers for Yul Brynner, Ty's replacement as Solomon. "Look at him," one woman shouted. "He's growing a beard. And him with his bald head...
Frozen Beef. In Sacramento, Calif., Loretta Weyant was granted a divorce on her testimony that after an argument, her husband had hung her from a meat hook in her restaurant's cold-storage room for two hours...
...pistol, managed to wound himself. Four child-guidance centers in turn worked on Robert, got nowhere. After three years of this, his mother gave up, insisted he was incorrigible and a "pathological liar," should be sent to a reform school. But at Oliver Wendell Holmes Grammar School, Principal Loretta Mulcahy found Robert "sharp" and capable of learning his subjects well, thought there was hope of rehabilitating him. There may still be hope, even now, but the rehabilitation will not be accomplished at the Oliver Wendell Holmes Grammar School. Last week, with John tagging along, Robert broke in, found matches, burned...
...plaintiff, in a Los Angeles court, called for the dissolution of Lewislor Films, Inc., producer of NBC-TV's Loretta Young Show, charged company bosses with "dishonesty, mismanagement and unfairness." The plaintiff: Adman Tom Lewis, 55; codefendant: the company president, Cinemactress Loretta Young, Lewis' wife for almost 18 years. Said Lewis: "It has no personal implications." Said Actress Young: "No comment...