People, Nov. 25, 1957

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

The $13 million-plus estate of the late Cinemogul Louis B. Mayer (TIME, Nov. 11) was divided, as now disclosed in his probated will, in L. B.'s characteristically forthright manner. To L. B.'s favorite charity, the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, will go the bulk of his fortune; a remaining amount of some $2,500,000 was left to his second wife Lorena ($750,000), his daughter Irene Selznick ($500,000), his adopted daughter Suzanne ($500,000), friends and faithful retainers. But Mayer's daughter Edith, 52, and her husband, Producer William Goetz, were left with nary a bequest. L. B.'s stated reason for this was tart enough: "During my lifetime, I have given them extremely substantial assistance through gifts and financial assistance to my daughter's husband and through the advancement of his career (as distinguished from that of my former son-in-law [Producer] David O. Selznick, who never requested assistance from me) in the motion picture industry." Some Hollywood historians surmised last week that there was another motive. Back in 1952, Ikeman Mayer had a bitter quarrel with Edith and Bill Goetz, both Stevenson supporters. He preserved his wrath, never forgave or forgot their disobedience to his patriarchal wishes.

"I'm too old now to care what I say to the press," Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton, 45, said to the press as she disembarked in Manhattan. "You used to frighten me. I used to shiver and shake . . . and usually I would say the wrong thing." Unwittingly illustrating her point, she added: "It's most unfortunate that I can't travel with an enchanting young man without all this talk starting!" The enchanting young man: sleek, suave Philip Van Rensselaer, 30, a onetime Manhattan model, aspiring novelist, unwealthy descendant of an old New Amsterdam family. Bolstering reports that the pair have spent the past few months husking poetry to each other in romantic Venetian settings, there has been no recent sign of Babs's sixth husband, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 48, onetime tennistar, in her immediate vicinity. Will Phil be No. 7?."You're flattering me terribly," bubbled Heiress Hutton. "It's not true." But at week's end, boyish Phil Van Rensselaer could not contain his own enchantment. He confided to a Manhattan newshen that he is definitely on Babs's future matrimonial program. In Mexico, sometime in January, said Phil, Babs will become Mrs. Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetskoy Rubirosa von Cramm Van Rensselaer.

In futuristic coveralls, Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who bulled through the first atom-powered submarine over strong Navy opposition, and TV Newsman Edward R. Murrow (TIME, Sept. 30) stood on a bridge spanning a big uranium power reactor in Shippingport, Pa. (see BUSINESS), which will soon start operation and become a nuclear hero on a Murrow show next week.