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After a year-long court fight, Texas Oil man W. Howard Lee, 51, fifth husband of ex-Cinestar Hedy (Ecstasy) Lamarr, 45, got a divorce, terminating what was, according to Lee, a most unecstatic six-year marriage. Hedy did not contest Lee's suit or his testimony that she had often belted him, reviled him, squandered his money, and accused him of swiping her jewelry. Day after the divorce, Hedy, gazing raptly at one of her own oil paintings (title: Chinatown), told newsmen that the marriage had gone bad because she had been too much a "mother" to Lee. Already getting $2,500 monthly in temporary alimony, Amateur Artist Lamarr settled for roughly $500,000 of Lee's cash and oil holdings making her more susceptible than ever to becoming the vic tim of the classically defined Hollywood heel: "The kind of man who would marry Hedy Lamarr for her money."
· · · Traveling to Toledo last January, Oregon's volatile Democratic Senator Wayne Morse delivered a lecture on labor legis lation to the Toledo local of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Last week Wayne Morse, the only Democratic Senator who voted against the Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill last year, volunteered that he had collected a standard lecture fee, $500 and expenses, from the Teamsters for his Toledo talk. Then he made a fine distinction: the fee was paid by the local, not by International head quarters. Said Morse primly: "I wouldn't accept a fee from [Teamster Boss] Jimmy Hoffa."
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Alighting on U.S. soil in Seattle after an extended spell of world traveling, CBS Commentator Edward R. Murrow seemed awed by his person-to-person reunion with the small world. Allowed he: "I think as a result of my eight months of wandering about, I will talk with less assurance about world conditions or perhaps I should say 'less arrogance.' "
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When Showman Billy Rose offered $1,000,000 worth of his private sculpture collection to the Bezalel National Museum of Israel (TIME, Feb. 8), the offer was quickly accepted, and plans were made to display the 50-odd pieces on five acres of imaginatively landscaped grounds adjoining the museum in Jerusalem. But opposition to the gift soon came from Israels' ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel Party, which protested that the planned display would be a profane violation of the Old Testament's canons against graven images. Pressured to withdraw the gift or shift the sculpture display to a city of less religious importance for Orthodox Jews, Rose threatened that unless the sculpture goes to Jerusalem as planned, he will cut off all of his gifts to Israel. But some Talmudic scholars sided with Rose, quoted Leviticus 26:1 to prove that statues are permissible so long as nobody worships them: Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it. . .
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