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...Step. Last week the Arthur Murray empire was busily checking the steps in its sales techniques in the wake of a Denver lawsuit involving a grieving widow whose friends advised her to get out and take Arthur Murray lessons and find some companionship. In four whirlwind months in 1953, Mrs. Myrtle K. White paid $20,640 for lifetime memberships. When Mrs. White came to, her savings gone and dependent on her job in a bakery, she sued Budd Howard, operator of the Denver studio. The court ordered him to give back $15,890, the value of her unused lessons...
...another suit last week, Mrs. Gladys C. Foss of St. Louis, also a widow, charged that she went into the Arthur Murray studio there, intending to take only a few lessons, paid $5 down and soon was persuaded to pay $17,040 for lifetime memberships. But she balked at selling her house to buy more lessons, instead sued for $100,000, charging fraud...
...thus proposes to discourage pupil-teacher crushes. Twice the form insists that membership must be within the pupil's means. Actually there have been a number of unpublicized incidents in which unhappy life-timers got their money back without going to court: one involved a wealthy West Coast widow, a triple lifetimer, who tried to date her instructor after hours in nightclubs. "Naturally," said Murray, "we refused permission...
...Saragossa, Spain, saturnine Cinemactor George Sanders, 52, onetime husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, said that he and Old Friend Benita Hume Colman, 51, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman, would be wed "in about six months." Acknowledged his intended: "I'm enchanted with the whole thing, but there is no hurry about...
...scarum a life as any of his characters, had a legal wife and son at Mill Valley, Calif., a mistress at Monterey who bore him five children and who, as Mrs. Eleanor McPartland, was named the city's 1956 "Mother of the Year." Later, McPartland's legal widow submitted the daughter of an unnamed third woman as one of the novelist's rightful heirs...