Word: defunctive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood lawyers, who thrive on champagne-spiked arguments, had another one: onetime Actress Marion Davies was sued for $11,582, the catering cost of a party at her home last year celebrating the marriage (now defunct) of Marilyn Morrison to Sob-Singer Johnny Ray. The plaintiff: Marion's old friend Charlie
...Whose iconoclast grandmother, Mrs. Emmons Elaine, backed the defunct pinko Compass (TIME...
Like the John Reed Club, the Harvard Fabian Society is now defunct...
...Reservist Voorhees insisted on publishing a book called Korean Tales, in which he rapped both the military brass and the press for what he thought were their shortcomings in Korea. As a result of ignoring the Army's orders, Colonel Voorhees, an ex-reporter and editor on the defunct Tacoma Times, was ordered to stand trial on charges of: 1) failing to clear the book with the Army, 2) "willfully disobeying" a superior who had ordered him to withdraw the manuscript (TIME, Nov. 10). Last week, after two weeks of testimony, Reservist Voorhees was found guilty on both major...
Flying Visit. The crash ruined the machine, but it made Willy famous. A German newsmagazine posed Willy and his defunct machine on a coal pile and took -a picture at night to give the impression that he was airborne. Several promoters and at least two foreign governments, Willy reported, wanted to see his designs. Trouble was, it also brought Willy into view of the authorities. Last week British occupation authorities descended on cousin Johannes' place and began a solemn investigation of Willy's goings-on. Willy ruefully put what little money he had left into the hiring...