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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Manhattan one day last week a 21-year-old cameraman named George Smooke focused his Contax at an apartment-house window, snapped a blurry but reproducible photograph of a shirtless man, a kimono-clad woman. The man was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, disbarred policy-racket lawyer, now under indictment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smooke Scoop | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

That Dixie Davis was not only leaving prison regularly to dally with a doxie, but doing so with the connivance of two Manhattan detectives, who, supposedly, were by court order taking him to have his tonsils treated, was the substance of the week's biggest scoop, scored by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smooke Scoop | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Last week Albert Davis Lasker, L. & T. president and top-flight U. S. adman, announced he would retire October 1, picked handsome, 46-year-old Don Francisco to succeed him at a salary said to be between $50,000 and $75,000 a year, moved L. & T. headquarters from Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Francisco to Manhattan | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

In Matawan, N. J., Judson Van Arsdale, 59, advertised for a wife. Out of 80 replies he picked May Meyers, 57, of Washington, D. C., sent her railway fare. Before they were married, May went home to see her daughter. Impatient, Judson sent railway fare to another candidate, Nellie Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

* Who later married Grace Vanderbilt's cousin Consuclo Vanderbilt Smith, daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt. Mr. Davis is the only known man who has married two Vanderbilts.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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