Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1963)

A few days before Deborah Power, Tyrone Power’s widow, was to bring her new-born baby, Tyrone Power IV, home to Hollywood, the infant was robbed of a precious legacy that his famous father had willed to him. The legacy of a thumb-worn copy of “Hamlet” that had been packed away in a scuffed briefcase, and the legacy of a gold ring bearing the Power ancestral crest, that had lain in a jewelry case in one of the bedrooms of the Benedict Canyon home of the late actor. This was the ring and the book which Tyrone Power III had received from his father, Frederick Tyrone Power II. This was the token Ty had carried with him wherever his acting work took him throughout the world. And this was what he wanted so terribly to pass on to his own son — the boy he was not destined to welcome into the world. Little Tyrone William Power IV did not receive his father's legacy. Thieves had broken into the Power house one evening while Deborah was still in the hospital after giving birth to him, and had stolen two mink wraps, some jewels and a TV set. Apparently as an afterthought, they filched the locked briefcase and the ring. Almost three years later, on November 16, 1961, young Tyrone William Power IV was to be denied an even more precious gift from his father. He was to be denied his name itself. In response to a joint plea made by Ty’s widow and her new husband, Arthur Loew, Jr. (they were then separated; they are now divorced), the Los Angeles Superior Court granted Loew the right to adopt his stepson legally. In addition, the judge gave the legal stamp of approval to the changing of the little boy’s name from Tyrone William Power IV to, surprisingly, Tyrone Power Loew.