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Sued for Divorce. Potter D'Orsay Palmer, playboy member of Chicago's rich hotel family;* by his third wife, Pauline Warren Palmer, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. heiress; in Sarasota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

MIDNIGHT SAILING - Lawrence G. Blochman-Harcourt, Brace ($2). (Published serially in Cottier's as Sunset Voyage.) Swift skulduggery on a Japanese freighter; several murders, spies, missing military plans, a blackmailer, runaway heiress and smart newspaper man. Better than average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Mystery | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Next entered a slender blonde young woman, formerly an American citizen, twice-married, once-divorced. The flashily dressed streetwalker bounced out of court. Shaggy-browed Sir Patrick Hastings, noted British barrister, rose, be to outline the case, that of Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, née Bar Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth 5?-&-10? fortune, against her husband, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, she claimed, had threatened her bodily harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insult | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Negro horse shows are not new, particularly in the South. Most famed is the annual, two-day jamboree at Orange, Va., a few miles from the farm of Du Pont Heiress Mrs. Randolph Scott. Accompanied by fortune telling, dancing and sideshows, the horses (mostly nags borrowed from white employers) are a minor attraction, often compete against mules. Prizes are bushels of oats, hand-me-down automobiles, whatever the committee can round up. Usually there is no attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Darkies' Horses | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...wife of a German cinema director slumped to the floor unconscious, was taken to the hospital with two broken ribs.) In Denmark Author Freuchen went to work to make money with as much frank delight as if he were harpooning a fine catch of seals. Marrying a beautiful margarine heiress, he began lecturing, wrote Polar news for a Copenhagen newspaper, became editor of a magazine started by his in-laws to lend prestige to the margarine business. When Freuchen was gypped, as when he bought his island estate, Enehoje, or when a lecture fell through, or when his money-making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Dane Tamed | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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