Word: gaged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Esther Williams, 35, cinemermaid: Ben Gage, 42, manufacturer, onetime radio actor-announcer; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Alimony awarded to Esther: $12 a year...
...velvet, Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, 42, beaming on an old beau she had met in the late '30s in Branford, Conn., took as her fourth husband German-born Novelist Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque, 59. In Las Vegas, onetime Queen-for-a-day Leona Gage, 18. who got bounced from the Miss U.S.A. throne last year for being a married woman, did her own bouncing: she divorced Air Force Sergeant Gene Ennis. Now a Tropicana Hotel show girl making $200 a week, the leggy brunette got only $25 a month for support of her two children...
...more good looks than their 29 sisters representing the beauty of their respective areas. Poured into white bathing suits, the girls swiveled decorously down a runway under the judges' fastened, clinical eyes. Then, with the pomp of a St. James's coronation, the winner was crowned: Leona Gage (Miss Maryland), 21, a dark-haired stunner (5 ft. 9½ in., 118 Ibs.; 36-23-36). The prizes: a $1,000 wardrobe, a $2,000 contract with a cosmetics firm, a house trailer, a European trip, and a chance to compete with 32 other girls...
...ticket, borrowed a gown for the Long Beach judging. When she won the big prize she was down to her last $2. "I'm not manstruck," she said. "I'm not marrying until I'm 26." And then the roof fell in on Leona Gage: the judges learned that she was married...
...nightclub offer; a Hollywood club wanted Mary Leona, and so did Movie Producer "Jungle Sam'' Katzman. Television's Dave Garroway and The $64,000 Question put in their bids. But cagey Ed Sullivan, who likes to be fastest with the most, did it again. Mary Leona Gage Ennis signed up for the Sullivan program...