Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the competent guidance of Mrs. Edna Skelton the comic began to amount to something. She wrote routines, made him study with a tutor until he got a high-school diploma, worked his salary up to $300 a week. Daughter of an undertaker she had just completed a course in embalming prior to her marriage. Skelton has never forgotten his friends' warnings that if he married her she could easily slit him open while he slept, pump him full of embalming fluid. Says he: "To this day I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat. . . . I have...
...lived in gossip columnists' showcases; in Manhattan. Born Philip Manwaring, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, transportation Tycoon Morton F. Plant, who left him $15,000,000. Divorce from Cinemactress Constance Bennett cost him a $1,000,000 settlement, divorce from Big Game Huntress Edna Dunham a fifth as much, an auto crash with Showgirl Helene Jesmer $75,000. His third wife, ex-Showgirl Marjorie King, survives as his widow...
...democracies. Last week a "Fight for Freedom" Committee was organized in Manhattan with 250 sponsors. Its members "accept the fact that we are at war," pledged to "do whatever is necessary to insure Hitler's defeat." Honorary chairman: Carter Glass. Typical backers: Colonel William Donovan, Authors Rupert Hughes, Edna Ferber, Publisher John Farrar, Editor Herbert Agar, Historian Walter Millis. But there was better evidence of the state of U.S. opinion...
...slight, is an affable, easygoing gentleman who twirls his mustache and pops his eyes at the sight of an attractive ankle. Last week he was sad. His U.S. wife, Signora Leonora Sutton Evans Lais, daughter of a New York City doctor, and his 19-year-old daughter, Edna, had decided to remain in the U.S. Admiral Lais packed. The U.S. had once more rebuffed the Axis...
...traditional love for France, more sentimental than rational. It is based largely on Lafayette and legend. When the French Government of Marshal Pétain asked for an armistice most of these U. S. citizens felt that their sentimental faith had been misplaced. They reacted much as did Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay in a sonnet entitled The Old Men of Vichy, which ended...