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...life of a horse named Tom Boy whose owner's will had decreed that the stallion should be destroyed to save him from mistreatment; and in perhaps his most celebrated case, he won an acquittal for Charlie Chaplin, charged with a violation of the Mann Act for transporting Starlet Joan Berry to New York. (He did not defend Chaplin when the actor lost the paternity suit that prompted him to leave Hollywood forever...
Born. To Joan Tyler, 28, once divorced sometime movie starlet whose paternity suit against Toastmaster-Comic George Jessel, 63, is still pending (his reaction to the summons: "At my time of life, it's a compliment"): her second child, a daughter; in Hollywood...
Born. To Bobby Darin, 25, Bronx-born groaner (Mack the Knife), and Sandra Dee, 19, blonde, bubbly cinema starlet (Tammy Tell Me True): their first child, a son; in Hollywood...
Then the padded shoulders and bun disappeared. Last month she dropped in on the starlet-studded Cannes film festival, went on to Paris for a chat with Andre Malraux. On her current junket, she touched down in Denmark, Iceland and then London, where the earl in question was the music-loving Earl of Harewood. For the dinner, Katya finally chose that staple of feminine fashion, "the little black dress" (mascara, no lipstick or jewels). "Our ambition," she said, "is to become even more elegant than you." How had she reduced? "Tennis, the secret of a good figure. Diet? I never...
...later become a mark for the novelist, and equally inevitable that the fiction of his life would be beggared by the facts. Clem Anderson is a thinly disguised Midwestern incarnation of Thomas, and as the novel opens, he is 37, newly successful, about to marry a blonde Hollywood starlet, and already suffering the physical penalties of literary lionization-"the bloaty softness of his face, the bat's-flesh bags under his eyes." From that high or low point, Novelist Cassill traces the fever chart of Clem's fatal illness-his life-in an intricate series of flashbacks...