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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              News hem Singer Judy Garland filed a $251,500 suit against the new Madison Square Garden. By Vernon Scott up staff writer by Garland is getting ready to go to court again. It figures. Judy is a Gal who almost always in in a runo one in show business has had More problems than the Doe eyed Singer who can break your heart with a song or crack you up with a one line  asked her Why she divorced her fourth husband Mark Herron a couple of years ago. Because i never saw him Judy replied he d Call once in a while Buti never knew where he was. I think he lived in a Telephone Booth on casters from childhood into the 40sshe s now 45judy has been in the spot Light All her life whether on a movie stage in court in the Hospital or simply in a Street Brawl with one of her Hus bands. Somehow through tragedy illness an Triumph she has survived. Some say she has spent As much time in court As judge Learned hand. Oth Wiir a has been in the spotlight ill her life whether on a movie stage., in court. Or. In a Street Brawl. Ers agree she is the greatest feminine entertainer of our time. Then there Are those who have worked with her who Only shake their Heads and run for the nearest exit. Judy has survived because of two extraordinary gifts her singing voice and an unparalleled if unusual sense of humor. Her health suffered she once told me during her second marriage when Hus band Vincente Minnelli snored All night keeping her awake. Because Judy had to arise at Dawn for movie work at Mem she soon developed a Case of the jitters. One night it got to be too much Judy related. Vincente was snoring so loud he Shook the windows. I sat up inbred and punched him As hard As 1 could in the nose. He woke up hollering and holdings bloody nose. 1 tried to convince him be had thrown his head against them Hestand. Anyhow the dear Man had a broken nose and had to Wear a funny Bandage on it for a week. Later he moved into a new Wing of the  Judy s humor can quickly turn to ? the person nearest her usually is the one to feel the blast. Recently that individual was Thomasw Een 29, a sometime Fiance and com Panion o Judy s. In april Judy charged Ween with stealing and pawning two of a rings. But the charge was used Judy apparently had made her Point and got the rings Back. My there is a pending suit against new York s Madison Square Garden. I?18 from Jud a s appearance there. Ember in a series of perform Tuat did t go Well. The suit Al a i e c Arden did t do right by Lur s a Dialler of acting acoustics ? plications Dot Judy s career. The a than not they have involved Wei men in her life. In is for instance the Complick of her third husband Sid Luft with july 11, 196s Judy has made series of triumphal comebacks. Judy and scarecrow Ray Bolger in March reunion. In wizard of of with Ray Bolger Jack Haley and Bert Lahr trussed up and starved. Whom she has battled in court and on Street  still manages her career from time to time. Like longtime ring combatants they have a deep affection for one another even while in the processor Ping longing lawsuits Buck and Forth. Say what you will of Judy she i never Dull. She also has the strength of Godzilla. Time Ami again she has Hov ered near death Only to come Back. Now she is a mite of a woman weigh ing no More than 100 pounds but she still fans the passions of her legendary following when she belts out Swanee or Over the  curiously she is a embittered about the fact that she has earned millions yet finds herself tottering near bankruptcy. It s because of the people i be know most of my life she explained recently. They get into the Judy Garland business. They take All the Money and i find myself with nothing left but  the Bills mounted High enough for Judy to sell her Home in an exclusive los Angeles suburb and move to new the stars and strips York where she and her children Lorna,15, and Joey 13, now live. Her daughter Liz by her marriage to Minnelli is a singing performer in her own right. Despite her travails her physical and psychological bruises her professional cataclysms she has remained optimistic although haunted she con fesses by the ghost of her  a nooses around sometimes at night giving me hell about things justas she did when i was a Little girl and continued on Sajja it n  
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