Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most underpaid reporters, Joe was a revolutionist. Colleagues remember the time when they upended the assistant managing editor and spanked him. They especially remember Joe rushing up with one ham-hand raised, a revolutionist's look in his eye, to strike a blow against authority. He met and...
Joe's revolt from Minnesota convention then took the form of a thin mustache and drooping sideburns. He wrote adventure, mystery and confession stories for the pulps. But laws of nature and economy caught up with him. He went broke, and Betty became pregnant. Back he went to journalism...
Betty served as his secretary (at $6,000 a year), efficiently labeling folders, answering letters from constituents, expounding Joe's views, and, on the side, running her family of three children. Minnesotans liked his earnestness and in 1942 returned him to the Senate for another six years. Joe became...
For another popular blonde, money was not so easy. Betty Grable and trumpeting husband Harry James wanted satisfaction from a couple of fellows who had allegedly sold them seven race horses. The Jameses filed suit, complained that they had paid $105,000 for the horses, spent another $3,000 on...
¶In Chicago, Barry Stephens, an artists' agent who has looked at legs long enough to tell one Radio City Rockette from another, called a turn: "The scrawny, thin leg is out. A fuller calf and a longer thigh is the trend, and we men see a return to...