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Touring with her play, Diamond Lil, Mae West, fiftyish, collapsed on stage in Rochester from food poisoning. But next night she was back in greasepaint, to "give...
...Richardson of Fort Worth. Probably the richest man in oil reserves, Richardson is a fiftyish bachelor who lives in the skyscraper Fort Worth Club, with a fine collection of Remington and Russell paintings of the Old West. A barrel-bodied man with sandy hair and a quizzical smile, Richardson drilled many a dry hole, for years lived on credit in a cheap hotel and ate on credit at a drugstore before he hit it rich in 1935. He owns a 30,000-acre island in the Gulf...
Gloria Swanson, fiftyish, oldtime movie femme fatale now trying a Hollywood comeback, learned that the will of her fifth husband, Broker William M. Davey, "intentionally refrained" from leaving anything of his $300,000 estate...
Married. Maida Heatter, 33, daughter of schmalzy Radioracle Gabriel Heatter; and Ellis A. Gimbel Jr., fiftyish, Manhattan broker, member of the Gimbel department store clan; both for the second time; in Freeport...
Divorced. Walter White, 56, author (Rope and Faggot, A Man Called White) and aggressive secretary (since 1931) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; by Leah Gladys White, fiftyish; after 27 years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico...