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Died. Grant Carveth Wells, 70, handsome, Ripleyesque explorer who alternated expeditions to Tanganyika, Manchuria and the arctic with lectures and radio broadcasts about flying frogs, African snowstorms and fish that winked from the treetops, once got $3,500 a week from a film company for Raffles, his garrulous myna bird, wrote widely about his rub-Dernecking (A Jungleman and His Animals); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
Veteran Joe Carveth, 32, was hauled into the regular lineup, and with Lindsay and Abel playing in their usual style, the Red Wings came from behind to beat Toronto in their half of the cup semifinals, four games to three. Meanwhile the New York Rangers had crushed Montreal, four games...
Grape-Happy Orphan. Probably the highest-paid bird in the world ($500 a radio performance), Raffles belongs to the explorer-lecturers, Mr. & Mrs. Carveth Wells. Mrs. Wells adopted Raffles in Malaya four years ago after its mother was killed by a snake. Mrs. Wells worked hard on the bird's diction, avoiding profanity, and taught Raffles to speak only on cue (a process involving bribery with the bird's favorite food-grapes). A major crisis developed when Raffles picked up a Southern drawl from the Wells's Negro maid, but that crisis passed when the maid picked...
Suit Won. By Mrs. Luard Theodora Wells, first wife of Explorer Grant Carveth Wells; against Mrs. Zetta Robart Wells, his present wife (TIME, April 29); in Bridgeport, Conn. Alleging alienation of affections and misconduct, Mrs. Wells asked $50,000. A jury awarded her $3,000 on the first count, $2,000 on the second...
Sued. Mrs. Zetta Robart Wells, second wife of Grant Carveth Wells, dashing traveler and travel-writer; by Mrs. Luard Theodora Wells, the traveler's first wife; for alienation of affections; in Bridgeport, Conn. Traveler Wells, testifying for wife No. 2, asserted that wife No. 1 beat him with a riding crop, wrote sarcastic letters about his amours, called the birth of their child an obscenity...