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Illinois Democrats put aside local squabbles and asked their showiest vote-getter to run for governor. Cook County's third-term Attorney Thomas James ("Honest Tom") Courtney, 49, whose silver hair and slanted smile are not lost on feminine voters, flatly demanded the support of Colonel Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News and Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. Getting it, he graciously accepted the draft. If he wins the Democratic primary, he will fight it out next November with the G.O.P.'s handsome, grey Governor Dwight Green, able, amiable yes-man of Colonel Robert R. McCormick...
...Italy: "All advances are necessarily slow because there are mines, mines and more mines, and quantities of booby traps," said the Army's Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges...
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...
...country-wide November elections changed all that: last week worried Democrats heard with relief that Ed and Tom had made up. As proof, before he left for Florida, conventional winter seat of all good bosses, Mayor Kelly solemnly endorsed one of Courtney's men for Cook County sheriff...
...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...