Word: dells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pasadena, Calif., an all-male jury considered the case against Sugar Heir John D. Spreckels III, whose blonde wife, Lou Dell, charged that he had whaled her with a poker. Pondering in private for 7½ hours, the jury decided that...
Sugar Heir John D. Spreckels Ill's wife, Lou Dell, was through with love. One month after the Spreckelses were jugged for whaling away at each other in the street (TIME, Sept. 1), Spreckels was picked up again, this time for going at Lou Dell hammer-&-tongs with a fireplace set. As soon as she got out of the hospital, disillusioned Lou Dell filed a suit for separation...
Then Gallo delivered a memorable line: "Speaking as perhaps the only honest man here. . . ." The rest of his speech was drowned in angry shouts. Only deaf Marcovaldi was unmoved by the uproar. The Great Compromiser proposed that a Comitato per la Posizione dell' Orologio-Committee for Determining the Clock's Position-be formed...
Arrested and jugged overnight for drunkenness were John D. Spreckels III, 38, one of the playboys who share the Spreckels sugar fortune, and his curlylocked third wife, Lou Dell, 37. Heretofore John's fun-loving, free-swinging cousin, Adolph B. Jr.,*had tended to hog the limelight of the tabloids, but John and Lou Dell won through last week with a knock-down-drag-out fight in the middle of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Boulevard. While the Spreckelses whaled away with enough vigor to leave each other bruised about the head and ears (see cuts), crowds gathered...
...Casting. Actresses Lana Turner, Linda Darnell and Ava Gardner were said to be on the committee's list. A leggy, blonde ex-riveter named Judy Cook declared that she had been paid $100 to put on her swimming act in the Hughes pool for visiting dignitaries. Actress Myrna Dell and Lovelies Marilyn ("Miss America, 1946") Buferd and Wendy Russell denied having been paid for their company. So did all the other girls...