Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold Stokowski, pale-maned maestro, since 1937 the great & good friend of Greta Garbo, was reported making nightly long-distance calls to Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who just inherited $4,500,000. "Friends" said that she would join him in Mexico as soon as her Reno decree comes through. Gloria and the maestro maintained a Garbo-like silence...
...Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who separated from her husband, Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco, three weeks before she came into an inheritance of some $4,700,000, entrained for Reno's divorce mill, was caught with her guard down by an alert photographer en route...
Stores, theaters, banks were still closed. Such business as existed was conducted in dusty bazaars or hole-in-the-wall shops. Boys offered fifths of rum and bad Philippine whiskey. A pretty girl named Carmelita Gloria hawked 1941 Liberty, magazines and Horatio Alger novels. But most of Manila was engaged in the elementary tasks of finding something to eat, and, now that sleep was possible...
...Married. Gloria Swanson, chic, sharp-jawed silent film star (Male and Female), who gives her age as 45, chief attraction of the short-lived Broadway play, A Goose for the Gander (TIME, Feb. 5); and William Mellon Davey, 52, Wall Street yachtsman; she for the fifth time, he for the third; in Union City, N.J. Previous Swanson husbands: Wallace Beery, Herbert Somborn, the Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, Michael Farmer...
...Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, 20, poor little rich girl whose legal troubles began at ten in a noisy custody squabble between her socialite mother (Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt) and her sculptress aunt (the late Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney), planned another trip to court. This time she will ask a formal separation from her nightclub-brawling, ex-Army-lieutenant husband, Pat di Cicco, 35, actors' agent. Married at 17, Gloria once observed: "What can one say of a first marriage except that it's wonderful?" Approaching her 21st birthday and a $4.5 million inheritance, she broke the news...