People: People, Aug. 16, 1948

Family Affairs

After 21 months of marriage (her second, his sixth), brunette Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor told the judge about life with her clarinet-tooting husband, Artie Shaw. In the tabloids, it all sounded like a souped-up version of her own Restoration fiction, in modern dress. In 31 pages of searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line—be a caveman"). "He...

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