Word: bonita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bearded, barefooted Jonas and his uncounted half-breed offspring are always going to earn a living "when we get twisted around." Their problem is gasoline. It costs money. Without it they can neither fish for bonita nor make Jonas' ancient clapboard truck run. When a sailor son (Jon Hall) comes home with a prize U.S. fighting cock, Jonas wagers the family furniture, the vanilla crop, anything at hand, on the fortune-restoring bird. The result is the blackest day in the history of the Tuttles...
Divorced. Tommy Manville, 47-year-old asbestos heir; by his fifth wife, Bonita Francine Edwards, 22; in Reno...
...Bonita Francine Edwards Manville, 22, after 17 days packed her things and said good-by to Tommy, who saw her off to Reno on the train, in the presence of faithful photographers and newsmen. Sighed Manville: "I don't know why she's leaving me." Declared the bride: "I think he's wonderful." Terms of the settlement were not disclosed...
Tommy Manville, Manhattan's silver souvenir of the trivial '20s, took another wife-his fifth. The bride was Bonita Francine Edwards, 22, a blonde showgirl whom 47-year-old Manville had met four days before. "Long engagements may be out of style," said the groom to the press, "but we're glad we waited till we were sure." The bride said frankly: "I'm not in love with Tommy-I'm just infatuated. I hope to fall in love with him after a while...
...baby in a girls' seminary, Cantor limits his histrionics to planting wet smacks on the patient infant, singing one lachrymose ditty, Little Curly Hair. Once tears trickle down his nose. But smart Showman Cantor lets cute Baby Quintanilla, and scads of leggy little schoolgirls, among whom are Bonita Granville and Diane Lewis (Mrs. William Powell; TIME, Jan. 15), carry the picture...