People, Aug. 4, 1958

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

In her Manhattan home, tuba-voiced Actress Tallulah Bankhead, 55, nursed a painful cut on the forearm. Tallu was alone at home, except for a maid and a young man whom she was considerately nursing through a case of hepatitis, when, in the middle of the night, she slashed her arm on the fragments of a lamp broken in a manner never adequately explained. Then—in her own roaring narrative—"three divine policemen, all six feet eight, came in. They couldn't have been more charming. They got me...

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