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1972: French Actress Catherine Deneuve doesn't talk much about being liberated, but she goes her own way. In 1963 she had a son by Director Roger Vadim and refused to marry him just to satisfy convention. She has been divorced for a couple of years from British Photographer David Bailey, but now friends report she expects another child in May. Catherine has announced no plans to marry the man she has been living with, Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni.
1973: When the ground began to heave beneath doomed Managua, Nicaragua, Howard Hughes was sound asleep in his hotel which promptly began to swoon. "Cool, so cool," as one aide put it, the phantom of high finance ducked out through falling debris and then spent his 67th birthday camping out in a nearby field. Looking for more comfortable surroundings, he summoned a private jet and flew off to London where he took over a whole floor of a hotel for $2,500 a day. A Hughes aide hinted, however, that the boss might soon emerge from his new hermitage. Said he: "I guess he thinks that life is passing him by a little. He is hoping to live more of a life if people will let him."
1974: The Harvard Lampoon had invited what it called "the biggest fraud in history" to come to Cambridge to accept a Brass Balls Award, created specially for him. Picking up the challenge, John Wayne, 66, rode into town on a 55-ton personnel carrier provided by the Army and accompanied by a bizarre platoon of Jeeps, cavorting cowboys and protesting Indians. At the Harvard Square theater, the Duke was introduced as "a foothill of a man." Then he fielded taunts from the floor. "Is it true your horse filed separation papers?" asked one wag. "H« was a little upset when we didn't use him in the last picture," explained Wayne. But apparently even he cannot tear down his macho image. In the midst of the debunking, a woman rose and shouted, "I don't care what they say, you're still a man."
1975: She was as lovely as a thoroughbred or a racing shell. "I guess I come off looking like a lightweight," said Model Margaux Hemingway, 19, implausibly, and turned to display a 6-ft. frame. Four months ago, Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter left the family's split-level in Ketchum, Idaho. One night when she was feeling good and funny and true, she revealed that she had been conceived after her parents had put away a bottle of Chateau Margaux, the kind of wine that has rested in cool cellars and must be drunk with reverence. "Tons of things are happening to me now," says Margaux. "I guess it's inevitable that I will get into movies." Perhaps a western, in which "everyone will be women—even the Indians."
1976: When Dr. Benjamin Spock published his Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care back in 1946, Mary Morgan was eight years of age. Three decades later, Mary Morgan Coumille is an organizer of conferences, a divorcee and, as of last week, the second Mrs. Spock. The recently divorced doctor, now 73 and a vice presidential candidate for the microscopic People's Party, met his bride last year while participating in one of her conferences on "the use and abuse of power." That