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Feb 12, 1996 Vol. 45 No. 6

The Greatest Love Stories of the Century

February 12, 1996

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The Greatest Love Stories of the Century

In the Age of the 30-Second Marriage, Tales of Enduring Devotion are Stories Worth Savoring

Pg. 59

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Table of Contents

Articles

A Man Possessed

John Du Pont's Long, Strange Slide Ended with the Violent Death of a Friend

Pg. 44

Diana Draws Blood

Lashing Out at Tiggy Brings a Legal Warning and Enrages the Queen

Pg. 50

Living Will

A Literary Sleuth Unearths a New Bit of the Bard

Pg. 54

Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor

Through Two Marriages and 23 Years, the Lustiest of Couples Couldn't Live With—or Without—Each Other

Pg. 60

King Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson

In a Scandal That Rocked the World, He Gave Up the British Throne to Marry An American Woman He Felt He Couldn't Rule Without

Pg. 66

Frank Sinatra & Ava Gardner

He Did It His Way, She Did It Hers, and the Fireworks Rarely Stopped

Pg. 70

Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz

Their Torrid Match Had to Burn Out, but Back in the Days When Desi Loved Lucy, They Set Off Sparks So Fierce, They Would Warm Future Generations

Pg. 74

Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio

What Becomes a Legend Most? A Goddess by His Side. Although Their Marriage Lasted Only Months, the Slugger and His Star Left Their Public Blinded by the Sight

Pg. 77

Stanford White & Evelyn Nesbit

The Architect's Designs on the Girl in the Red-Velvet Swing Provoked a Rival's Wrath and Marked Him for Murder

Pg. 79

Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

Bound by Their Art and a Blinding Attraction, They Seldom Lived Together but Couldn't Bear to Be Apart

Pg. 83

Margot Fonteyn & Roberto Arias

A Young Love, Rekindled Later in Life, Could Not Be Destroyed, Even by Gunfire

Pg. 87

John Lennon & Yoko Ono

His Band Didn't Survive It, His Fans Couldn't Fathom It. But the Thinking Man's Beatle Found Love—and the Courage to Imagine—with a Strong-Willed Original Named Yoko

Pg. 92

Ernest Hemingway & Agnes Von Kurowsky

They Knew Each Other for Less Than a Year, and Their Affair May Not Even Have Been Consummated, but in Literature, It Lives on Forever

Pg. 123

Clark Gable & Carole Lombard

He Was a Man's Man and She Was a Man's Woman, and Together They Soared Beyond Stereotype. Then Fate Stepped in to Pull Hollywood's Golden Couple Apart

Pg. 124

Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas

For Four Decades, the Imperious Writer and Her Diminutive Companion Ruled the Avant-Garde of Paris—and Each Other's Hearts—with Surprising Propriety

Pg. 127

Elvis Presley & Priscilla Beaulieu

As Powerful and Disturbing as a Scene from Grand Opera, the Cloying Romance of the King and His Child-Love Became An American Cautionary Tale

Pg. 130

Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy

Extravagant Contrasts, They Found Passion a Common Ground

Pg. 135

Boris Pasternak & Olga Ivinskaya

Neither Prison Walls—Nor the Cold Winds of Communism—Could Diminish the Devotion Between a Great Author and His Lionhearted Lara

Pg. 137

Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall

The Tough-Guy Exterior Was Just An Act. And Their Movie Clinches Paled in Comparison to the Real-Life Ardor Between Bogie and His Baby

Pg. 140

William Randolph Hearst & Marion Davies

The Man Who Inspired Citizen Kane Found His Equal in a Fun-Loving Chorus Girl

Pg. 143

Grace Kelly & Prince Rainier III

When Hollywood's Princess Met the Prince of Monaco, She Traded Her Realm for His. The Result Wasn't Always a Perfect Marriage, but It Lasted Till Death Did Them Part

Pg. 144

Dashiell Hammett & Lillian Hellman

The Two Writers Held on to Each Other Through High Times and Scoundrel Time—the Red Scare of the '50s

Pg. 149

Ronald Reagan & Nancy Davis

Faced with Their Biggest Challenge Yet—His Alzheimer's—the Former First Couple Look to the Future the Way They Always Have: Together

Pg. 150

Reverend Billy Graham & Ruth Bell

Uplifted by Faith, They Tended Their Union Through Hardship and Separation

Pg. 155

Sid Vicious & Nancy Spungen

Punk Pioneers, They Personified Sex, Drugs and Destructive Love

Pg. 156

F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Sayre

Beautiful, Gifted and Reckless, These Free-Spirited Expatriates Defined the Dazzle and the Decadence of the Jazz Age

Pg. 163

Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson

After Growing Up in An Emotional Desert, He Finally Found An Oasis—and Refused to Let Her Get Away

Pg. 167

Colin Powell & Alma Johnson

He Has a Wall Full of Medals and a Military Résumé That May yet Win Him the White House, but the General Claimed His Biggest Victory the Day He Won the Heart of a Boston Audiologist

Pg. 168

Prince Charles & Camilla Parker Bowles

Deceiving His Wife and Defying Convention, They Carried On

Pg. 171

Charlie Chaplin & Oona O'Neill

The Uproar Over Their May-December Romance Dissolved as the Hollywood Rake and the Playwright's Daughter Forged a Marriage the World Would Envy

Pg. 172

George Burns & Gracie Allen

In a Showbiz Marriage That Lasted for 38 Years, These Former Vaudevillians—Whether Onstage or Off—Played It for Love, for Laughs and Always for Keeps

Pg. 174

Jackie Robinson & Rachel Isum

The Electrifying Brooklyn Dodger Who Integrated Baseball and His Gracious, Elegant Wife Were Major-League Partners

Pg. 176

Popeye & Olive Oyl

Can a Rude, Crude, Tattooed Guy Find Love with a Skinny Spinster? Whaddya Think?

Pg. 178

Platinum Predator

Can Soap Supershrew Morgan Fairchild Whip the City into a Lather?

Pg. 183

A Run for His Money

Fortunate Son Steve Forbes Turns a Flat Tax and Big Bucks into a Startlingly Durable Candidacy

Pg. 186

Risky Business

Tough, Direct Gen. William Nash Watches Over U.S. Forces in Bosnia

Pg. 196

Glitz Never Sleeps

David Lee Roth Unveils—Gulp—His Vegas Act

Pg. 200

Animal Instinct

For the World's Top Wildlife Photographers, the Virtue That Wins Prizes Is Patience

Pg. 202

Also In This Issue

Inside People

Pg. 4

Mailbag

Pg. 8

Tube Reviews

Pg. 17

Screen Reviews

Pg. 21

Song Reviews

Pg. 27

Page Reviews

Pg. 35

Bytes Reviews

Pg. 41

Insider

Pg. 43

Passages

Pg. 195

Chatter

Pg. 206

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