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Farm-born Dwight Lyman Moody was a shoe clerk in Boston when, at 19, he was brought to Christ by his Congregational Sunday School teacher. Year later he was a $5,000-a-year shoe salesman in Chicago. There he began an extraordinary program of prayer-meetings, social work, personal evangelism, recreation, philanthropy. Short, stout, full-bearded, he became known to the Chicago Press as "Crazy Moody." He liked to stop pedestrians, inquire "Are you a Christian?" Declining for conscience's sake to fight in the Civil War, he nevertheless followed the Union armies saving souls. Critics said...
Married. Guy Waggoner, 58, Texas racetrack owner (Arlington Downs), co-administrator of the $100,000,000 oil fortune left by his father, W. T. ("Old Dan") Waggoner; and Virginia Joan Greene, 20, Dallas department store clerk, his sixth wife; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer-well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford...
...Cinemactress Leeds eight times. In order to give each of three prospects-John Payne, Bob Lowrey and Tennist Frank Shields-a fair chance, he had each do the sequence 20 or more times. The tests took more than three hours each. At the end of the day a script clerk announced that Cinemactress Leeds had been kissed 467 times...
...traced, like so many others in Hollywood, principally to a misspent youth. Too independent to follow his father's profession of public accountant, he ran away from school at 14, earned his living for five years as cab driver, lifeguard, reporter, tile setter, office boy, bank clerk. Where an orderly schooling might have refined, this helter-skelter existence served to aggravate the amazing accent of an illiterate Hell's Kitchen ragamuffin which is now his principal financial asset. Stander's first important cinema role was in The Scoundrel (1935). His raucous, angry voice and guttersnipe demeanor stamped...
Sued. The City of Chicago; by John Ickes, 63, brother of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes; for $31,125 in salary, $9,337 in interest, $11,000 in raises, accrued between 1926 and 1932 during which period he was removed from his job as chief clerk of the City's special assessment division for "political reasons...