Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In its issue of March 13, under the heading People on p. 62, TIME implied that the Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow appeared before an English court & renounced the custody of her young son to ensure her Danish divorce going through.
The order of the English High Court of Justice had nothing to do with the divorce question, and merely confirmed the custody provisions of the Danish separation agreement, whereby the Countess has the custody of her son, Lance, for nine months each year until he is six years of age...
The inference, from TIME'S statement, is that there was a bargain between the parties whereby the Countess gave up custody of her son to ensure a divorce. This is wholly incorrect, and unfair both to the Count and Countess.
The progress of the Gable-Lombard romance was apparently impeded by Mrs. Gable until last January, when she announced that she would sue for a divorce. When the divorce was granted, March 7, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard at last admitted they would marry, without saying when.
Married. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay, 24, great-granddaughter of Inventor-Industrialist Peter Cooper (founder of Manhattan's famed free educational centre, Cooper Union), heiress to $10,000,000; and one Gene Bradstreet, 23; she for the second time; in Reno. In 1936 Heiress Hewitt started suit against her mother...