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Cobina Wright was the only one of his five wives to part by divorce from Owen Johnson (Stover at Yale), Born Esther Cobb on an Oregon ranch 90 mi. from a railroad, she was taken abroad by an aunt; at 16 she made her operatic debut in Germany and married Novelist Johnson. After War and divorce she entered Manhattan society by way of marriage to a wealthy broker named William May Wright. In 1924 she began a series of concerts chiefly distinguished by her Poiret gowns. Meantime she was becoming famed for large, jolly parties to which socialites and celebrities...
Elvert Carlstrom. a young Swede, appeared with a Hauptmann alibi for the fatal night of March 11, 1932. He said he had gone from Dunellen, N. J., where he was employed as a caretaker, to The Bronx to see a girl named "Esther." He went to Christian Fredericksen's bakery-restaurant, which he used to patronize when he lived nearby, with a man named "Larsen." In the restaurant, he distinctly remembered seeing Hauptmann sitting at a table. When the State began questioning him, Carlstrom could not recall "Esther's" last name or "Larsen's" first...
Last week there was no school in Pompey Hollow. Pert, pretty Esther De Lee, who used to teach in the little upstate New York hamlet, was staring defiantly across a courtroom in nearby Syracuse. Glowering back at her was James N. Armstrong, Pompey Hollow's lean, sallow school trustee. Every one of Pompey Hollow's twelve schoolchildren was in the courtroom. So too were their parents, their parents' friends, Miss De Lee's friends and Mr. Armstrong's friends...
...Esther, 2 weeks...
...mention was made of Esther Everett Lape, new assistant to Curtis Bok, the Orchestra's president (TIME...