Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HEYDAY OF A WIZARD -Jean Burton-Knopf...
...conviction was also a legal milestone in the life of Wayne William Lonergan, the convict's 22-month-old son -- heir by his mother's will to her personal fortune of some $230,000 and her share in a $7,000,000 trust fund. Already Mrs. Lucile Burton, his chic grandmother, was preparing a petition for her appointment as his guardian...
There was already testimony about his perversion: Assistant District Attorney Jacob Grumet testified that Lonergan confessed (this unsigned confession is now repudiated by the defendant and his lawyers) to homosexual relations, both before and after his marriage. One of the men involved is said to have been William Burton, Lonergan's wife's father. (Broderick has referred to a boy corespondent in Mrs. Burton's 1926 divorce action.) Grumet also quoted Lonergan as saying that he derived "a certain amount" of satisfaction from his married life but that his separation from his wife was the result...
...apartment to leave a toy elephant for his son. He was unstable, seldom held a job for long. One of his few recorded jobs was chair pushing at the New York World's Fair. Example of his psychopathic unscrupulousness: his marriage to Heiress (about $6,000,000) Patricia Burton, especially if the rumor about Lonergan and Burton is true. Lonergan eloped with his wife against her mother's wishes...
Most nonconformist of Broadway critics is the World-Telegram's wiry Burton Rascoe. He throws vitriol while his colleagues are pouring honey, ecstatically waves his arms while his colleagues are turning down their thumbs...