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...nephews Lee Adam, who became a broker and met death in an unexplained fall from the ninth floor of the Yale Club; Louis, who resigned to enter Wall Street, is now with hops brokers S. S. Steiner & Co.; and Benedict, present boss of WIP, who married and divorced a Wampus baby star...
...signed Rita for a dancing bit in a picture Spencer Tracy would like to forget: Dante's Inferno, one of the worst big-budget movies ever made. After the picture she became a Fox Wampus Baby. But at that point Darryl Zanuck breezed in, took over the studio (renamed it 20th Century-Fox), and his new broom swept Rita out. (Mr. Zanuck recently had cause to regret this haste, when he had to pay Columbia a stiff fee to borrow Rita for the role of Seductress Dona Sol in his pale epic. Blood and Sand. Rita and the bull...
...most people she continued to look and act like a doll-faced, taffy-haired Wampus cutie, and those who thought about her at all thought of her as Olivia de Havilland's kid sister and the wife of Brian Aherne...
...going concern from the farmlands of Hickory County, Mo. that had rolled into Hollywood, set up in business as a Wampus Baby Star. Blonde, fetching, standing 5 ft. 1 in her bare feet, weighing 110 Ibs. in her working clothes, Sally Rand, nee Beck, no time showed her business ability...
Exception is hereby taken to the statement made in your Letters column (April 10) by Dean Harrel, Business Manager. U. S. C. Wampus...