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Engaged. Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, fortyish, famed Parisian couturiere; and one Paul Iribe. painter, decorator, Chanel business partner...
...Progress Exposition now stands, were "made" by ashes and earth carted off for disposal by the tunnel freight system and dumped along the lake front. Despite all this the tunnel system went upon the rocks in 1912, had to be reorganized. Sherman Weld Tracy, former railroad man, then fortyish, now sixtyish and grey-haired, was put in charge. Since then he has kept the tunnels out of receivership but it is no secret that they have never been a very profitable venture. Meantime Ogden Armour and E. H. Harriman are dead. Their widows are today two of Mr. Tracy...
Sued for Divorce. James John ("Jimmy") Walker, 51, New York's one-time Mayor; by Janet Allen Walker, fortyish, onetime vaudeville singer, daughter of the Chicago Evening American's first city editor; in the Circuit Court of Dade County, Fla. Charge: "Willful" desertion . . . "guilty, obstinate and continued." Newshawks shouted news of the suit up to Mr. Walker's hotel window in Cannes, France, at dawn while he was applying hot irons to his lumbago pains after a night club party. He shrilled down, "I have been fantastically misunderstood. The action is absurd. Shut up!" and slammed...
...former Marion Spore of Bay City, Mich., redhaired, fortyish Mrs. Bush (sister of Naval Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam) has been a practicing dentist and a practical philanthropist, known in the penny press as "The Angel of the Bowery...
Engaged. John Alden Carpenter, 56, famed composer, son of a Chicago ship chandler; and Ellen Waller Borden, fortyish, Chicago socialite music-lover, divorced wife of Explorer-Stockbroker John Borden. Since the death of his wife, Rue Winterbotham Carpenter in 1931 and his latest composition Patterns (TIME, Oct. 31), hard times have forced Composer Carpenter to be attentive to his late father's factory (now mill & railway supplies). The marriage date was contingent on Mrs. Borden's raising $100,000 in $1 donations for a music temple at the Chicago Century of Progress fair...