People: Love or Money

Clyde Pangborn, famed 'round-the-world flyer of 1931, now an RAFerryman, was sued in Montreal by his wife for $400 a month separate maintenance. Barbara Bennett Downey Randall, sister of Cinemactresses Constance and Joan Bennett, lost her fight for custody of her five children. The Connecticut judge who ruled the children should stay with their father, Crooner Morton Downey, recalled that the mother had remarried a few days after the divorce, found she had "permitted volatile infatuation to be substituted for mother love." Cinecomic Red Skelton's wife Edna announced she was moving out as...

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