Word: chaplinitis
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...mystery by carefully concealing her fiancés' names, carefully dropping hints as to their nationalities, professions, wealth, renown. Rich and renowned men to whom Pola has been rumored engaged: Chicago Millionaire Harold F. McCormick, British Millionaire Lieut. Commander Glen Kid-ston, Cinema idols Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin. Most renowned man with whom Pola's name has been linked is Adolf Hitler (TIME, April 26, 1937). This most sensational of rumors about Pola hit the headlines over half of Europe, is said to have made the Führer weep. Goebbels thought she was Jewish. Hitler had Pola...
...correspondents in Moscow last summer who have since visited the U.S. are: James Brown, I.N.S.; Henry Cassidy, A.P.; William Chaplin, I.N.S.; Eddy Gilmore, A.P.; Walter Graebner, TIME & LIFE; Walter Kerr, New York Herald Tribune; Larry Lesueur, CBS; Leland Stowe, Chicago Daily News and New York Post...
...Hollywood standards, the famed Brown Derby's 20th anniversary was a quiet celebration. Rita Hayworth and Paul Whiteman posed for pictures. Charlie Chaplin and his fourth bride arrived. Hollywood adolescents gawked, clutching their autograph books, watching at the door of the onetime hamburger stand which has now become four restaurants doing a gross business of $2 million a year...
Among the newlyweds' first callers were OPA men goaded into action by calls from other pairs who wanted gasoline for their honeymoons. The agents wanted to find out why Chaplin had used two cars, how he had filled their tanks, whether he had driven 80 miles an hour...
...Previous Chaplin wives: Mildred Harris (1918-20), Lita Grey (1924-27), Paulette Goddard (1936-42). †O'Neill offspring: by 1909-12 wife Kathleen Jenkins, 33-year-old Yale assistant professor of Greek Eugene Jr.; by 1918-29 wife Agnes Boulton, 23-year-old seaman Shane, Oona...