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Lana Turner's much-publicized friend, Yaleman John Alden Talbot Jr. (TIME, Dec. 15), staggered Manhattan night clubbers by turning up with brunette, oldtime Cinemactress Polo Negri. (Bob Topping was now "being seen with" Lana...
...romance since Garbo and Stokowski, allowed "a studio spokesman" to inform the world that the thing had dropped dead. Three days later lovelorn Lana arrived in Manhattan from Hollywood with her four-year-old daughter Cheryl (who had a cold), and a new-found friend, grown-up John Alden Talbot (who looked fit as a fiddle). Hollywood Columnist Louella Parsons explained all about it: "Lana said . . . 'The separation . . . has changed Ty. . . . He came back* determined to spend his time fighting Communism...
...words of manuscript in a huge iron chest at Auchinleck Castle, the family seat in Scotland. His respectable heirs decided that Boswell had embarrassed the family enough during his lifetime, and kept his papers hidden. Eventually the papers moved, with Boswell's great-great-grandson and heir, Lord Talbot de Malahide, to Malahide Castle in Ireland. Famed U.S. collector Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach cabled Lord Talbot an offer of $250,000 for the Malahide Papers. Said Lord Talbot: "Who is this person? Please ask him not to correspond with me. We have not been introduced...
...Ralph Heyward Isham made out better. He showed up at Malahide Castle in person, got on well with the family, in 1927 came away with the Malahide Papers for a rumored $300,000 to $500,000 (TIME, March 9, 1936). Three years later he got another batch that Lady Talbot discovered in an old croquet box. She had carefully inked out all of Boswell's uninhibited indiscretions, gave experts the 18-month job of restoring the deletions. Not until the mid-'30s were the Malahide Papers issued, in a $900 limited edition of 570 18-volume sets...
...radio and Sunday newspaper comic section ads, have heralded the postwar return of "premiums," the somewhat mysterious business in which everything from atomic rings to nylon stockings can be bought at cut prices with the proper number of box tops, soap wrappers, etc. Ever since 1851, when Benjamin Talbot Babbitt, the father of packaged soap, got the idea of offering sentimental chromos for 25 Babbitt's Best Soap wrappers, premiums have helped sell thousands of items...