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...flat broke," she told a Los Angeles court. It was a little hard to believe coming from the woman who dined ecstatically off solid-gold plates during her heyday. Just the same, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler Mandl Markey Loder Stauffer Lee Boies, better known as Hedy Lamarr, 50, insists that it is true. And so she is asking $3,510 temporary monthly alimony in a divorce suit she has filed against her sixth husband, Los Angeles Attorney Lewis W. Boies Jr., 44. Her daughter, Denise Hedy Lee, 20, hopes for a different kind of life. A sophomore at the University...
...stable is taxed as a business unless it loses money for five straight years; at that point, it is automatically classed as a hobby, and the owner has to pay taxes on every penny of income for the full five years. Sighs Calumet's worried owner, Mrs. Gene Markey: "We have to make money this year. I may have to sell something...
...could always start with the silverware. The Pine Room at Calumet Farm, five miles outside Lexington, Ky., glitters from floor to ceiling with equine loot: the seven Kentucky Derby trophies, six Preakness cups, four Jockey Club Gold Cups, 76 Julep Cups representing feature race winners at Keeneland. Mrs. Markey could also auction off some land. Calumet's 846 acres of rolling Kentucky bluegrass are worth some $3,500,000-and that's not even counting the 18-room manor house, 36 outbuildings and 23 miles of white oak fences. The estate was inherited from his family...
...hard to beat Ky. Pioneer or Kentucky Jug. Pioneer (odds: 15 to 1) is a son of Preakness and Belmont Stakes Winner Nashua; Jug (20 to 1), of the famed stud horse, Alibhai. Both are being groomed for the Derby in classic Calumet fashion-slowly, gently, painstakingly. To Owner Markey and Trainer Jones, winning the Kentucky Derby in the past has always been more an affair of honor than of money. "I would rather win the Derby than all the races in the world," says Mrs. Markey. This year, she may have...
...well that Romanoff sent out for a ring and chartered a plane. Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons buried one of their perfumed hatchets under a Romanoff's table. Admiral Bull Halsey. as best man, emceed the wedding breakfast celebrating Myrna Loy's marriage to Gene Markey. Gable guzzled champagne at Romanoff's with an indiscriminate palate. Errol Flynn naturally threw his suckling-pig parties at home, but Romanoff's catered them...