Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month before their divorce case could reach the comparative dignity of the courts, Billy Rose and Eleanor Holm began throwing mudpie bulletins at one another in public.* Last week their latest volley of press releases gave Manhattan's joyful tabloids the best copy of the whole hot summer. Billy Rose himself, the unco-smart little bashaw of Broadway, called it "trial by newspaper...
...warrant for his arrest if he ever set foot in the state. Her charge: Rose was passing around an affidavit from her onetime Negro maid, Alberta Jones, that contained obscene, "horrible lies" about sex orgies that supposedly took place in Mrs. Bernie's home and involved her, Eleanor, and an unidentified girl called "Trudy." The affidavit, said Mrs. Bernie, was a phony; furthermore, Rose had bribed the maid...
...fact was, said Billy, that "it was only after the case got into the newspapers and [Eleanor] filed 150 pages of affidavits charging me with everything from smuggling Chinamen to raising marijuana on my window sill that I decided to take a look at the pretty pot that was calling the kettle black ... I refuse to get bitter about [Eleanor], and I never suspected any extracurricular activity on the part of my wife. But her behavior was enough to make a strong man weep. My marriage ended seven years ago." (He was locked out of their house in October.) Since...
...Peglerese for Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Haverford, Pa., just back with the Wimbledon singles championship, 17-year-old Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly walked off with her third straight Pennsylvania & Eastern States title after losing only eleven games in the entire tournament. Asked about the reported tiff with her coach, Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant, she replied: "I am not mad . . . We had a few words in England over my supposedly sore shoulder that never really bothered me, but we kissed and made up. Teach made me what I am today. She changed my entire game, and she'll be my coach as long as I play tennis...