People, Mar. 11, 1957

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

Nominated for promotion to brigadier general, Air Force Reserve: lanky Cinemairman James (The Spirit of St. Louis) Stewart, 48, now a colonel and veteran of 20 combat bomber missions over Germany in World War II.

Five and Dime Scion Lance Reventlow, one of the future's richest men, turned 21, was cheered by the gift of a $425,000 Beverly Hills estate, complete with waterfall, from his sixfold-married mamma, Heiress Barbara Hutton. Two days later, Speed Demon Reventlow, who flies low about town in a Mercedes-Benz...

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