Word: davey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloria Swanson, 45, high-styled siren of the silents, complained to a Manhattan court that since her fifth husband had left her she had been living on borrowed money, and now she wanted $1,000-a-week support. William N. Davey, 52, who married her in January and left her in April, charged that she had misrepresented her debts and had failed to tell him before the marriage that she needed an expensive operation, and now he wanted an annulment. Gloria argued Wall Streeter Davey's ability to pay: he kept a $100,000-a-year yacht...
Married. Gloria Swanson, chic, sharp-jawed silent film star (Male and Female), who gives her age as 45, chief attraction of the short-lived Broadway play, A Goose for the Gander (TIME, Feb. 5); and William Mellon Davey, 52, Wall Street yachtsman; she for the fifth time, he for the third; in Union City, N.J. Previous Swanson husbands: Wallace Beery, Herbert Somborn, the Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, Michael Farmer...
This is William Walton, our paratroop expert and correspondent on special assignment to cover the war in the air. He crossed to England on the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, and you may remember his vivid story of how the Spencer Davey Jonesed a U-boat in an eight-hour battle...
...aerodynamically perfect pursuit plane in existence, was in production in 1941. . . . It would have been preferable to increase production of Mustangs, decrease production of Curtiss Warhawks." (P40 production at Curtiss-Wright's Buffalo plant was scheduled for full capacity this year, said Wright's General Manager William Davey...
...LIEUT. ROBERT C. DAVEY...