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Marion joined the fledgling film industry shortly after World War I, quickly graduated from $15-a-week secretary to $17,000-a-week scenarist. She scripted Greta Garbo's first talkie (Anna Christie), Clark Gable's first romantic film (The Secret Six), and in 1930 and '31 won successive Oscars for two Wallace Beery movies (The Big House, The Champ). Just last fall Marion published her sentimental memoirs of Hollywood, Off With Their Heads...
Wills alone gained an instant obscurity from the episode. He received a pro forma letter of commendation and a $5-a-week raise. He was also sufficiently unnerved by the event that he quit his job. Now he is back on the beat again in another Washington building, making $85 a week...
With a successful housebuilding business in Burlington, Vt., George J. Chicoine figured to be able to meet the modest $150-a-week child-support payments that were due his estranged wife. But he eventually fell $2,550 behind. Brought before Judge Robert W. Lar-row, Chicoine claimed he did not have the money. The judge said that there was evidence he had $90,000 stashed away, and ordered him to pay. Chicoine refused. That meant that he was in contempt of a court order, and Judge Larrow threw him into jail. Chicoine has been an inmate ever since...
Settled in a $7.20-a-week cottage, W.H. Auden called his old college town "sheer hell." Only four months ago, the 65-year-old poet escaped from New York to spend his last years quietly at his Oxford alma mater. Imagine his surprise to find the town of Oxford "five times as crowded and the noise of the traffic six times louder." And that isn't all. Auden recently had $117 stolen from him. Sighed he: "Ironically, I had to leave New York and come to Oxford to get robbed." After his comments kicked up a transatlantic furor, Auden...
Married. William Zeckendorf, 67, former $25-a-week building manager who wheeled and dealed his way into control of one of the world's largest real-estate empires (Webb & Knapp, Inc.), then watched the bottom fall out in 1965; and Alice Bache, 60-ish, widow of Securities Magnate Harold (Bache & Co.); both for the third time; in Manhattan...