Word: courtneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Years & years ago Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly and its headline-making State's Attorney Tom Courtney, both Democrats, were pals. But for almost a decade of hate, Courtney has vainly tried to unseat Boss Kelly. Only last October, Courtney was "embarrassing" the Mayor with a lurid (though routine) grand jury investigation of police graft and corruption...
...Felipe also spent 14 of his years in the U.S. waiting for the hand of Courtney Letts, a tall, dark-haired, slender member of Chicago's onetime "Big Four" of socialite beauties. Don Felipe first courted her in the '20s, but she married two wealthy Americans first. Finally, three weeks after her second divorce, Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden became Senora de Espil, who in turn became one of the world's ten best-dressed women, and an able diplomat herself...
Jessel's first marriage, to Actress Florence Courtney, broke up when she got religion and he got restless. His second marriage, also to Florence Courtney, broke up after Jessel met "the one great love that you never find a second time"-Cinemactress Norma Talmadge. After an ecstatic beginning, that marriage foundered too. Concerning his fourth unsuccessful marriage, to 16-year-old Lois Andrew, Jessel quotes a remark attributed to the lady: "He's not too old for me, but I'm too young...
...English leftist. The man who urged the British to "cut down the decaying wood of the House of Lords before it falls upon us" is descended from Sire Crispe de Stanlake, a 13th-century Buckinghamshire squire, Sir Stafford's father and two uncles were peers (Parmoor, Passfield, Courtney). His brother, Freddie, married the Duchess of Westminster...
...players is Joe Pamelia '46, tenor sax player and winner of the Swing contest held last summer at Winthrop House. Another new man is the pianist, Courtney Crandall '46, who in a few months has become the co-leader of the group...