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...nothing) Young, 62, board chairman of General Electric Co.; and twice-widowed Mrs. Louise Powis Brown Clark, 50; in St. Augustine, Fla. His first wife, Josephine Sheldon Edmonds Young, died two years ago. He first met the second Mrs. Young in the Philippines, where she helped her first hus band, Elwood Stanley Brown, in Y. M. C. A. work. Her second husband. Industrial Engineer Horace Clark, died in 1929. Mr. Young's four children, Mrs. Young's three beamed from front pews during the ceremony, at the conclusion of which the grave bride was not kissed...
...wives as altogether worthless characters. Dodsworth (TIME. Sept. 28) showed one who lost her husband by trying to remold him in her own pattern of a social climber. Craig's Wife, adapted from the George Kelly Pulitzer Prize play of 1926, shows another who loses her hus band through psychopathic selfishness...
...cheapest politicians who have neither courage nor honesty." Of her selection to be the third woman Senator in U. S. history,* the new Lady from Louisiana remarked: "That's fine. That's very fine." On the rare occasions when newshawks sought out Mrs. Long during her hus band's turbulent lifetime, she liked to say that she was "just a nice Irish girl named Rose McConnell" when the future Kingfish met & married her. Born on a farm near Greensburg, Ind., she was taken by her parents to Louisiana at 10. Though Huey Long recorded in his autobiography...
...Railroad vice president, ran away from a Manhattan school to marry John Stanley Kirwan. son of a real estate operator. The marriage was annulled before the birth of Andrew. Mrs. Kirwan next married and divorced Captain Winneld Sifton, son of a Canadian Cabinet official. Mrs. Sifton's third hus band was Captain John Victor Nash of the British Army. Before her divorce from Captain Nash, she figured in a notorious lawsuit brought by Paris dress makers against her husband in which the Judge declared: "She threw herself be neath the fatal curse of luxury. . . . Dress and dress alone seems...
When the Doge's court turned the tables on Shylock he was heavily fined, forced to will the rest of his fortune to his run away daughter Jessica and her goy hus band, made to promise he would be baptized. But he knew life in Venice would be insufferable, and after his enforced baptism escaped by ship to friends in Constantinople. After an abortive Zionistic attempt to found a Jewish colony at Tiberias he sailed with a Turkish expedition against Venice-owned Cyprus, and there had a vicarious revenge on the city that had ruined him. There...