Word: duff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady Diana Duff Cooper, daughter of eight Dukes, was patriotically collecting swill for her pigs from door to door in Bognor Regis, Sussex, when she was picked up on three traffic charges. ∽∽ Third wife Sylvia, ex-Lady Ashley got her $3,000 monthly allowance from Douglas Fairbanks' estate continued for six months. Other heirs had claimed this was more than the income on her half-share, for the estate may be much less than the $2,000,000 Doug thought he was leaving, had asked that her allowance be reduced to $1,000 monthly. ∽∽ Princess...
Married. Glamor Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20; and John Sims Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player whom the bride prefers to call "Jack" rather than "Shipwreck"; in her mother's Manhattan apartment...
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20, perennial Glamor Girl No. 1, finally decided to wed her longtime escort, socialite Insuranceman John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player. Brenda, whose allowance has been $1,000 a week, said they would live on Ship's insurance commissions, at least until she comes into her $3,500,000 next year. He gave her a diamond-paved cabochon emerald ring. She said they would live obscurely. Dancers Tony and Renee de Marco seemed split for good when Renee left Manhattan last week, bound for "Florida ... or Reno." Maritally separated since 1938, they...
Since Beaverbrook took a hand in M.O.I, there has been many a rumor that he intends to take over Duff Cooper's job as Minister of Information. London corre spondents think it unlikely that Beaverbrook will do more with M.O.I, than play the super-coordinator. But for the first time in World War II they are hopeful of evening the score in their one-sided contest with M.O.I. censors, red tape and buck-passing civil servants...
...first public reaction to the news in Britain and the Americas was the same as Duff Cooper's. Hess was played up as a "decent" Nazi who had escaped from the enemy camp, would undoubtedly aid the British...