People: Hearth & Home

Gene Tierney's parents went to court, heard a Connecticut judge grant a foreclosure order to the holder of a $5,004.25 mortgage on their Westport, Conn. home. Broker Howard S. Tierney and Gene's mother, Mrs. Belle T. Tierney, through the Belletier Corp., a family corporation formed to handle their daughter's financial affairs, sued in vain last June to enforce a contract requiring Gene to pay 25% of her film earnings to it.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought the Pocantico Hills, N.Y. firehouse, to which he had lent money, for $5,000 at a foreclosure sale, is expected to rent it to the village, where...

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