Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, heiress to $10,000,000 (Bromo-Seltzer); and Henry J. ("Bob") Topping Jr., 24, Manhattan socialite and heir to $9,000,000 (tin-plate); in Palm Beach. A few days previously Topping was divorced by his first wife, Glamor Girl Jayne Dunham Shadduck Kirkland Topping, who got a settlement reputed...
...Chicago, Ill. and Rome, Italy two top-ranking newsmen got ready last week to leave jobs which have brought them fame aplenty and a modicum of fortune...
Last summer rumors got around that Editor Ruppel was unhappy over "changes in routine" which gave other editors added authority in the local room. Two weeks ago he announced he was leaving, was feted at a noisy, sentimental banquet. Times reporters and writers whooped with delight when courtly Musicritic Robert Pollak stood up and described the arrival of Editor Ruppel as a "foundling" in the Times's lobby nearly four years ago. Said he: "The baby was wrapped in an old copy of the New York Daily News. When we first made out its cries it was yelling...
Last week Lou Ruppel got a new job far removed from the din of replating. On December 28 he becomes publicity director of Columbia Broadcasting System.* His successor at the Times: quiet, serious Newseditor Rowland Wood...
...Hollywood, Shirley Temple got her first Christmas presents: an English Bible and four sling shots. Her mother discussed the whole situation: "The problem is the same every year. We get packages from every place in the world. . . . We let Shirley enjoy every present she gets. When she tires of something . . . we store it in the attic. Just before Christmas, we take them to a children's hospital...