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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Arrivals & Departures | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SEVEN BIG TEXANS | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Directions | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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