C t‘i /2.c A Link Between By Vera Glaser and leges that Kennedy and Malvina Stephenson Miss Monroe met "often" Copyright. 1977, Knight Newspapers Inc. at the California home of Washington actor Peter Lawford, Ken- nedy's brother-in-law. AN EXPLOSIVE book purportedly linking the late Published reports in re- President John F. Kennedy cent years have linke d with movie star Marilyn Miss Monroe with the late Monroe has run into legal Senator Robert Kennedy. roadblocks. "It was never Bobby. It After signing a contract, was Jack Kennedy," Mas- advancing $9000, and gear- ters told these reporters. ing up for March publica- Duff said that World sen- tion, World Publishing ior editor James Wade ad- Company of New York ab- mitted "outside pressure" ruptly canceled a tell-all prompted the unexpected book by a close friend of cancellation of the book. the deceased actress. Wade was unavailable The frustrated author is for comment. Hollywood make-up artist Spokesmen for World George Master s, best and for Covington & Bur- known for his "retreading" ling, the Kennedy family's of President Johnson's Washington law firm, de- daughter Lynda Bird. nied Duff's charges of Masters' attorney, Jer- pressure. ome Duff of St. Louis, Mo., Duff planned to fly to is preparing to sue World New York today to file suit for about a million dollars in U.S. District Court. If for breach of contract. sworn depositions substan- After reading the book tiate his conviction that the Manuscript, Duff said it al- Kennedy family blocked publication, Duff said, he intends to name them as co-defendants. Masters' literary agent, Oscar Collier of New York city, is trying to line up a new publisher. Only if the new publisher objects, Duff said, will he consider de- laying legal action. "Feel Me — Am I Dry Yet?" was the working ti- tle of the Masters book. In it the make-up man reveals how he glamorized famous • beauties, won their trust, and learned about their private lives. He has worked with al- most every major Holly- wood star, but rocketed to LYNDA BIRD ROBB national fame via Lynda Famous make-over Bird while she was dating Master s' friend, actor George Hamilton. "George Masters was very close to Marilyn Mon- roe," said agent Collier. "He looked through the camera lens often before she permitted herself to be (.5^ 4C ea 7/ JFK, Marilyn?

JOHN F. KENNEDY, MARILYN MONROE Frequent meetings at Peter's house? photographed. George of- The book contract was York Times, a landmark ten helped her get ready to canceled, Duff said, "for- case in which a U.S. Su- go out on dates. The book ty-eight hours after World preme Court ruling makes is super-candid. It contains received a call from Cov- it almost impossible to li- some direct quotes from ington & Burling." bel a public figure. To Marilyn. The burgeoning literary make a case, malice must "It is clear that her ad- controversy recalls the fu- be proven. miration for John F. Ken- ror in 1966 when President "George's book is not nedy was intense. George Kennedy's widow Jacque- only true, which is a total tells the truth as he sees it. line, now Mrs. Aristotle defense to libel," Duff as- The book was very careful- Onassis, sought unsuccess- serted, "but even if it were ly researched. That is all I fully to quash a book by inaccurate or untrue, none can say." William Manchester. The of it is malicious." Masters recalled that legal battle dominated the In May World is sched- Miss Monroe had been news media for months. uled to publish "Ethel," a "fired" by her studi o, A World official admitted biography of Robert Ken- Twentieth Century-Fox, for that the eleventh-hour re- nedy's widow by Lester consistent failure to appear versal was "unique" in his David. A World spokesman on the set. She was sudden- long experience in publish- described David as "close ly reinstated,. he said. He ing. He would say only that to the family," adding that intimated that Kennedy in- their attorneys saw no way Mrs. Kennedy had granted fluence played a part. to recast the text to avoid interviews to David and re- "Three days later she libel or invasion-of-privacy viewed his manuscript. flew to New York to be at complications. Masters believes the the big JFK birthday party Duff termed the libel Kennedy lawyers told {in May 1962). It was so ob- complaint "sheer fantasy." World to nix his book or vious," Masters said. He cited Sullivan vs. New face a pullout by Ethel.