People, Dec. 14, 1953

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

Once upon a time a multimillionaire banker named H. (for Harmon) Spencer Auguste told his old friend, former Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, that if Auguste were to die, Jack should take care of his handsome widow, Mrs. Estelle Auguste. When Auguste died four years ago at 74, Estelle, who has frequently been picked as one of the world's ten best-dressed women, inherited a reported $35 million. What Spencer Auguste had not foreseen, however, was that lots of men would find Estelle attractive, thus infringing on Jack's assignment. Only last week, for example,...

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