Word: adela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sports Columnist Gallico quit the News and was divorced by his second wife, who, as the daughter of Sobsister Adela Rogers St. Johns, comes from an-other celebrated newspaper family. He fictionized stories he had heard as personal experiences in the news rooms of the News, wrote his Farewell to Sports* for Hearst's Cosmopolitan. When he became bored with freelancing last January, the News rehired him at an ordinary reporter's salary to do general assignments, among them the Fisher Body sitdown in Detroit. But stories like that do not break every...
Outside "Bill's Gay Nineties," midtown Manhattan nightspot, Cinemauthor Adela Rogers St. John, her husband Francis Patrick O'Toole and friends Daniel Higgins & Will Wright claimed they were set upon without provocation by Doorman Charles F. ("Sailor") Grande. Wright's skull was fractured. Taken to police court, where her party as well as the doorman were booked for assault. Miss St. John explained how she came through the brawl unscathed...
Divorced. Paul William Gallico, 39, Manhattan sports and fiction writer; by his second wife, Mrs. Elaine St. Johns Gallico, 21, daughter of Hearst Hollywood Columnist Adela Rogers St. Johns: in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty, slapping her face for "a facetious remark...