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...Thomas Guinzburg, 35-Miss Gam sighed that the trouble "all seemed to date from the time Tom stopped smoking," hoped that the separation would be "only temporary." At the same time, evergreen Joan Bennett, 51, had gotten so used to her longtime on-and-off separation from Producer Walter Wanger, 67, that she decided to file for divorce. "It will all be very agreeable." said she of the fade of a 22-year marriage, which was interrupted once before-in 1952. when Wanger served 15 weeks in jail after jealously shooting Miss Bennett's agent in the groin...
...bald, unprepossessing man who looked like a half brother to both Adlai Stevenson and Alfred Hitchcock, Giesler delivered his exhortations to juries in a crescendoing whine, sometimes trailing off into the deep purple. He defended Walter Wanger after the jealous producer fired a -38-cal. slug into the groin of a fellow whom he considered too attentive to his wife, Joan Bennett. Giesler decided this was temporary insanity. "For a brief mo ment," he told the jury, "through the violet haze of early evening, Wanger saw things in a bluish flash." The jury some how saw it that...
...client Robert Mitchum, ar rested for smoking marijuana, also went to jail. Although Giesler was fairly sure that Mitchum had been framed, he counseled against a not-guilty plea in order to avoid the added publicity of a drawn-out jury trial. "My handling of the Mitchum and Wanger cases saved the motion-picture industry much grief," Giesler said much later in his as-told-to book with Saturday Evening Post Writer Pete Martin, "but they didn't appreciate it then. They don't appreciate it now. It has always been the industry's weakness that...
...great reluctance," brother Dwight accepted his resignation from advisory committees on Government organization and inter-American affairs. In London to be a 20th Century-Fox movie version of Cleopatra, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor has lain ill for four weeks-at an "astronomical" cost in lost shooting time to Producer Walter Wanger. With a low, persistent fever, Liz was confined to the London Clinic, where she was under the care of two of Queen Elizabeth II's personal physicians. A semi-medical diagnosis of her mysterious ailment came from London's Daily
...NONSENSE ABOUT STATE PRIMARIES AND FIRST AND SECOND AND THIRD BALLOTS AT CONVENTIONS ? WHY NOT ELECT A MAN WHO HAS ABILITY, EXPERIENCE, INTELLIGENCE AND INDEPENDENCE ? TIME IS NOW TO MOBILIZE YOUR READERSHIP AND ELECT RESTON PRESIDENT AND BARBARA WARD VICE PRESIDENT ON A TWO-WORD PLATFORM: "NO DOUBLETALK." WALTER WANGER LOS ANGELES...