People: Jun. 1, 1962

Movie Star Dina Merrill has parts aplenty to occupy her working hours, three sparkling children to brighten her home life, a few well-bred lines in the Social Register, and enough money to buy Hollywood—her mother is Marjorie Post May of the $100 million Post Toasties fortune, and her husband. Stanley Rumbough, gets a big squeeze from the Colgate toothpaste tube. To top it off, an extra little bibelot has now come Deenie's way. "As a token of affection," both her father-in-law and mother-in-law, whose deaths came four months apart, left her bequests of $1,000.

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