Word: courtneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Army got a new Chief of Infantry: Major General Courtney H. Hodges, 54. Among other infantrymen, it was a popular promotion. Now commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga., General Hodges will take over his new job on May 23, when blocky, phlegmatic Major General George Arthur Lynch's four-year tour as Chief expires...
...Died. Courtney Ryley Cooper, 53, ex-circus clown, ex-newspaperman, ex-circus pressagent, G-Manly author (10,000 Public Enemies, Here's to Crime), prolific writer for magazines, radio, screen; by his own hand (hanging); in a Manhattan hotel closet...
...Philip Barnet, Francis J. Bassett, Bancroft Beatley, Charles S. Bolster, Frederick J. Bradlee, Millar Brainard, William B. Breed, Henry P. Briggs, Frederick W. Brune, Francis W. Capper, Boughton Cobb, Robert C. Cobb, Charles R. Codman, Kenneth J. Conant, James F. Conway, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Donald C. Cottrell, Paul G. Courtney; Henry DeFord, Jr., Eben Henry McB. Parker, William A. Parker, Henry Parkman. Jr., Ronald L. Redmond, Edward Reynolds, Junius A. Richards, John Rock, H. W. Dwight Rudd, Philip H. Sherwood, David R. Sigourney, Joseph P. Spang, Jr., Henry S. Strurgis, Ernest G. Swigert, William S. Draper, Roger C. Fenn, John...
Married. Comedian George Jessel, 42, onetime husband of Norma Talmadge and Florence Courtney; and Showgirl Lois Andrew, 16 and an inch or two taller than he; by a judge; in his suite in Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel. Jessel's friend U. S. Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell gave the bride away. Shouted the happy bridegroom as he tried to put the ring on the wrong finger of Mrs. Jessel III, who burst into giggles: "Somebody give my wife a drink before she falls on her beautiful puss...
Engaged. Comedian George Jessel, 42; and Lois Andrew (Lorain Gourley), 16, who once punched Producer George White in the eye; he for the third time (wife No. 1, Florence Courtney; No. 2, Norma Talmadge); in Manhattan. Said Mama Gourley, 33: "I have no objections to early marriages. I was married at 16 myself. I've been divorced seven years." Said Papa Gourley, Los Angeles police official, by wire: "POSITIVELY FORBID YOU TO MARRY ANYONE WITHOUT MY CONSENT...