Word: heiberger
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Died. Louise Cromwell Brooks Mac-Arthur Atwill Heiberg, 75, first wife of the late General Douglas MacArthur, a Philadelphia banker's daughter who was the subject of a 1922 press report that widowed four-star General John J. Pershing threatened to exile one-star General MacArthur to the Philippines ("Poppycock," said Black Jack) if she married him, which she did, then divorced him on grounds of incompatibility seven years later; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Down in Washington, D.C., four-times-married (and divorced) Mrs. Louise Cromwell Brooks MacArthur Atwill Heiberg, 67, was writing her memoirs and saying a few advance words about her second husband. She became Douglas MacArthur's first wife in 1922, said the New York-born socialite, over the objections of General John ("Black Jack") Pershing, who was also courting her. "Pershing told me if I married MacArthur he would send him to the Philippines." But she did not divorce the general eight years later because she hated the islands, as has been reported. "It was an interfering mother...