Word: dempseys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Hannah Williams Dempsey, 31, onetime showgirl; by Coast Guard Lieut. Commander William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 48, onetime heavy weight champion; in White Plains...
...Hannah Williams Dempsey came out for the third and last round of her divorce trial fagged but trim. After chief co-respondent Benny Woodall disclaimed any & all connection with the Dempseys' "martial troubles," the onetime show girl took the stand to tell how the Manassa Mauler once sent her guests home in an ambulance, once suggested an illegal operation to her, once tossed her into a closet, once waved a gun at her (she said she told him to "Take one good shot and end my misery"). When a candid photo of her with Benny and his sister...
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...
...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...