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Her lean, clean looks and whiplash wit earned Nancy Gross from Pacific Grove the nickname Slim and a place in Truman Capote's Answered Prayers as the mordant Lady Coolbirth. Of all the men who fell for her— from Clark Gable to Ernest Hemingway—Slim married three: director Howard Hawks, who created Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not in her image; producer-agent Leland Hayward, the love of her life, whom she lost to Pamela Churchill; and Sir Kenneth Keith, the financier with the stiffest upper lip. In an excerpt from Slim (Simon and Schuster), written with Annette Tapert and finished just before her death this spring, Lady Keith proves you could never be too rich or too Slim.