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...remarkable guy in more ways than one--he is remarkable for himself and remarkable for his relatives. His sister recently married his father-in-law, so that makes her his mother-in-law and his father-in-law is his brother-in-law. His wife is his sister's daughter now-is other words, his wife is his niece...

Author: By Frank K. Kelly, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

...murder. Police testified that he had said he "hated him [Sir Harry] because he was a stupid old fool who couldn't be reasoned with." Sir Harry's manager, Newell Kelly, testified that De Marigny had threatened to kick his father-in-law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Faith and Circumstance | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...after 18 years, from David Meriwether Milton. A blithe young speed enthusiast known as "The Golden Girl" to society editors of the mid '20s, she had stayed out of the news since her marriage. Milton is a lawyer whose accomplishments include borrowing $1,000,000 from his father-in-law. The divorce will be the first involving one of John D. Sr.'s direct descendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Only the week before he had agreed to pay his pre-Oona protegee Joan Berry $2,500 down, legal costs, and support until the blood test which may or may not show that he did not father her unborn child. From the white house in the San Francisco hills where Chaplin's new, recently ailing father-in-law Eugene O'Neill† works with his third wife, Carlotta Monterey, on a long awaited cycle of plays, no word came. The bride's mother sent congratulations. Said Joan Berry: "He can't do this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 28, 1943 | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Horowitz has been able to achieve much more rapport with his great father-in-law. Toscanini has given him brilliant support in two of the most bravura concerto recordings ever made: the Tchaikovsky Concerto (a fabulous best-seller), and the B Flat Major Concerto of Brahms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Vladimir of Kiev | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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