Word: gloria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Gloria Gould Bishop Barker, 37, glamor girl of the '20s; by drowning in her swimming pool; near Phoenix, Ariz. A granddaughter of Financier Jay Gould, daughter of Famed Stage Beauty Edith Kingdon Gould, she gave a dance recital at Carnegie Hall when she was 16. She married her first husband at 17, as a playfully ambitious young heiress. Served as a professional greeter at a Broadway movie house and otherwise attracted attention with interviews on marriage, motherhood and careers for women. She deserted society in 1930 after her second marriage, to Contractor Walter McFarlane Barker...
Divorced. Edward Beale McLean, 25, son of Hope Diamond-decked Evalyn Walsh McLean, rococo Washington hostess; by Ann Carroll Meem, 24, daughter of Washington Banker Harry Grant Meem; after five years of marriage; in Reno. He will marry Gloria Hatrick, a Manhattan model...
...transit gloria, or, as they say in New Haven, let's have another ale before we tackle the broader aspects of minority plebiscite...
Hamburger and Capon. Founder of the Brown Derby was the late Herbert K. Somborn, movie producer, second of Gloria Swanson's four husbands. A coffee-bibber, Somborn wanted 20 cups a day. And he often sighed for his mother's home cooking. A restaurant seemed the only answer. He outlined the idea to his friend, legendary Wit Wilson Mizner. Cracked Mizner: "A restaurant like that would succeed-even if you called it the Brown Derby...
Flato 's cuff had been extended liberally to Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller ($1,320). Oth er accounts receivable: Brenda Diana Duff Frazier ($585); Marlene Dietrich ($50); Gloria Laura Vanderbilt ($1,018); Gloria Swanson ($692); Mrs. Alfred G. Vander bilt ($1,096) ; Doris Duke Cromwell...