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Married. Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52, motor millionaire; and Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 29, platinum blonde ex-showgirl; he for the fifth time, she for the second; at his mother's 75-room seaside mansion in Palm Beach...
Palm Beach was titillated by the off-again-on-again marriage plans of Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52-year-old heir of motor millions, who recently settled $1,000,000 on wife No. 4 so that he could take No. 5, ex-Showgirl Gregg Sherwood, 26. One of the reported spats occurred around vichyssoise time at lunch one day, when Gregg dropped the word that she had imported a Manhattan pressagent to help spread the tidings of her forthcoming wedding. This spoiled lunch for Horace, who fumed, "What am I, a dancer? I want publicity?" But on Valentine...
...Hollywood. This wonderful binge of laughs and coin could not last forever; the depression hit Broadway, too. Lahr's wife was suffering from a mental illness and after painful years their marriage was annulled. He was married again, to a softspoken, ash-blonde ex-showgirl named Mildred Schroeder. Meanwhile he had headed west to try Hollywood for size...
...welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion, now a Manhattan advertising man, who was awarded the Silver Star for heroism on Guadalcanal, won another battle in 1946 when he overcame an opium addiction picked up after his injuries in the Pacific; and second wife Cathy Hewlett Ross, 33, ex-showgirl who divorced him in 1946; in Del Mar, Calif...
...Robbed: ex-Showgirl Patrice Amati Runyon Coffin, ex-wife of the late Damon Runyon, and her husband Richard Coffin, New Bedford printer; of some $200,000 (her estimate) worth of jewels...