Word: ex-fiance
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Peter Fuld was a German refugee who had become a Canadian citizen and created a thriving telephone-equipment business in London and Frankfurt. Three years ago, at 41, Fuld died of a brain tumor, leaving an estate estimated at $28 million, plus an exwife, an ex-fiancée, his mother, other relatives and numerous friends-all with assorted claims to his money...
...comes into a hunexpected inheritance, takes up wif a girl (Carrie Nye) from the local haristocracy and proceeds to get engaged. After a heady spell of high life, Kipps is disillusioned and marries a non-U charmer of a chambermaid (Polly James) from his own class. But his ex-fiancée's caddish brother absconds with Kipps's last thruppence. Presto! An alcoholic playwright whom he once befriended showers him with a handsome percentage of the royalties from his first hit play...
Sharing the bill in the Broadway debut of Liz's estranged husband. Crooner Eddie Fisher, 34. was Frankie's ex-fiancée, South African Dancer Juliet Prowse, 26, who displayed vast areas of skin and even more gall. She pranced onstage as a barely garbed Joan of Arc and slithered her way through a song that pictured the saint as a call girl; then she turned up in some Egyptian gauze and launched into Cleo, the Nympho of the Nile, ending with a belly dance that would have fazed Farouk. Snorted one of the critics giving...
...father was one of the most renowned Hamlets, John Barrymore Jr., 28, has never been notably Shakespearean. But last week he made Barrymore-sized headlines after a sub-balcony performance worthy of a Greenwich Village Romeo and Juliet. At 5 a.m. he insistently rang the doorbell of his ex-fiancée, Italian Cinemactress Giorgia Moll, 21. Barrymore announced himself as the apartment porter, but Giorgia's mother, not the least bit fooled, had the cops called. When John Jr. was later haled into court on charges of housebreaking and defamation, the whole thing became clear-more or less...
Talent Scout. In Chicago, Lawrence I. Lowell, 35, sued his ex-fiancée, Mrs. Rose Cichon Potocki, 28, for $2,500, to cover expenses of his courtship and reimbursement for some of the time devoted to her "which could have been used seeking wife material...