Word: franklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Dr. Franklyn P. Thorpe, 47, handsome Hollywood gynecologist whose 1935 divorce from Cinemactress Mary Astor heralded the famed courtroom squabble over custody of their child (for three weeks U.S. tabloids went tantivy after her two-volume diary, rich in purple patches); and Virginia Bancroft Mitchell, 25; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville, for the moment a lonely bachelor veteran of seven marriages, put up for sale the complete furnishings (estimated value, over $100,000) of the 29-room house on his five-acre. $400,000 estate, Bon Repos, in New Rochelle, N.Y., announced he had not made up his mind whether he would sell the rest. Meanwhile he is making his home in the eight-room guest house...
...higher education received an unusual recruit last week. "Sunny" Ainsworth, 20, thrice-married seventh wife of Playboy Thomas ("Tommy") Franklyn Manville Jr., breezed across the University of Chicago's sweltering campus to take her three-hour aptitude test, first hurdle on her way to matriculation. Sunny was as refreshing as a breath from the Pump Room...
Married. Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville Jr., 49, asbestos heir; and Macie Marie Ainsworth Ettinger ("Sunny") Moran, 19, twice-married ex-chorine; in Manhattan. The marriage lasted 7 hr. 45 min. At week's end Mrs. Manville No. 7, fortified with a book about the Medici, took a train to Reno, and New York State Senator Louis B. Heller said he would sponsor a bill to outlaw matrimonial Houdinis who "affront the majesty and dignity of the state...
...most beautiful language." Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville Jr., 49, announced that his next (seventh) wife would be Macie Marie Ainsworth Ettinger ("Sunny") Moran, 19-year-old, twice-married ex-showgirl...