Word: dempseys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...years on the Times let Davis develop his tastes. He covered the Ford peace ship, the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, the Harding arms conference, the famed Zev-Papyrus match race, wrote everything from editorials to whimsy. By 1924, when his third novel was published, he was ready to try free-lancing as a steady thing. He wrote adventure and boy-meets-girl stories for the slick-paper magazines, essays on literature, politics and realpolitik for Harper's and Saturday Review of Literature...
...State capital at Springfield one day went Illinois's G.O.P. National Committeeman Werner W. Schroeder and Cook County G.O.P. Chairman John T. Dempsey. From early afternoon until midnight they conferred with ambitious Governor Dwight H. Green in the old, rambling Governor's mansion. Roger Faherty was in Springfield, too; but except for a brief visit to the mansion he spent his time fending off reporters at the Leland Hotel. Next day he was eating lunch at the hotel when he got a telephone call. Not stopping to finish his meal, he rushed to the Governor's home...
Sued for Divorce. By Lieut. Commander William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 47; Hannah Williams Dempsey, 31, ex-musicomedienne, ex-wife of Roger Wolfe Kahn (son of the late financier Otto); after ten years, two separations; in White Plains, N.Y. She is his third wife (second was Cinemactress Estelle Taylor) and mother of his two children, Joan Hannah, 8, and Barbara...