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Earl Jones, sandy, stout, fiftyish, extended his brawling up & down Zanesville's main street. He fought with an automobile dealer by buying a rival agency. He threatened to start a department store when two merchants failed to advertise with him, warned that he would go into the theater business if movie exhibitors did not buy News space. They did. When a large drugstore stopped advertising, Jones bought a rival store a few doors away. He spends part of most days behind its counters, and there he frequently entertains soldiers at dinner with his third wife (whose Lincoln Zephyr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Main-Street Battler | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Irene Bordoni, super-Frenchy musicomedy veteran (Hitchy Koo, Little Miss Bluebeard, Naughty Cinderella), was the new chanteuse of Manhattan's La Vie Parisienne nightclub. The fiftyish, Corsica-born brunette sang favorites new & old (old favorites: If You Could Care for Me, Let's Do It, Do it Again), described her hairdo as the American Push-"Poosh all my hair on a other side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 21, 1944 | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

Divorced. By Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden (Mrs. Florence Nightingale Evlanoff), the shady side of 60; Prince Michael Evlanoff, fiftyish, of the late "international set"; in Augusta, Me. The grounds: cruel and abusive treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1944 | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. By Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden (Mrs. Florence Nightingale Evlanoff), the shady side of 60: Prince Michael Evlanoff, fiftyish, late of the late "international set"; in Augusta, Me. The grounds: cruel and abusive treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. By Ruth Mitchell, fiftyish, "blood-brother" of Yugoslavia's guerrilla leader Draja Mihailovich, sister of the late aerophile General William ("Billy") Mitchell: Stanley Knowles, British schoolmaster, her second husband; after 18 years of marriage, eleven of separation; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

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