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Still playing the romantic lead in the season's hit divorce trial was slat-shaped Prizefight Manager Benny Woodall, no muscular match for his accuser but apparently a fearless man. Witnesses for Husband Jack Dempsey testified that they had rushed with him into a Los Angeles apartment ("Mr. Dempsey leaned against the door and it went down") and found red-headed wife Hannah in blue pajamas, Woodall in pajama trousers and undershirt. A detective testified that, when Mrs. Dempsey asked her husband what he was doing there, Mr. Dempsey's reply was: "I'm following...
...White Plains, N.Y. divorce court, Coast Guard Lieut. Commander Jack Dempsey sat deadpanned and massaged the knuckles of one fist; his wife, full-fashioned, ex-Musicomedienne Hannah Williams, in a beige suit, tan corduroy coat, red gloves, red-heeled shoes and considerable eye shadow, fiddled with her sunglasses and turned various colors. A cook, an elevator boy, a fight manager, a maid took their turns on the witness stand, told stories of parties at redheaded Hannah's apartment...
...just quietly "left out." Hannah's attorney burned him with a remark about narcotics. "I'm no neurotic," snapped Harry the Horse. "I never touch the stuff." Another witness told of the times he had seen Hannah and ex-Lightweight Champion Lew Jenkins together. Another reported on Dempsey's front-door entrances as Hannah's visitors left by the side door...
...days witnesses for Dempsey paraded across the stand, then Hannah had a nervous collapse, got a four-day adjournment. Said Dempsey's attorney: "You haven't heard anything yet." Defense counsel started looking for a witness of their own, one "Yvette," who had told some tales about Plaintiff Dempsey and then vanished. Promptly Yvette's attorney turned up to swear that she had been talking through...
Offstage were Joan and Barbara Dempsey, eight and six. They were the purse...