Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan penthouse, fussed over by a devoted male secretary. Odets clearly enjoys his success. In the first golden days when he was hoisted into fame, he got a great kick from going to parties, being seen out with Beatrice Lillie and Tallulah Bankhead, weekending with Helen Hayes and her husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur...
William Gilbert, who was Queen Elizabeth's personal physician but used his spare time to putter with electricity and magnetism, discovered that when iron is hot it loses its magnetism. That was about 1600. Late in the 19th Century, Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, discovered that-although magnetism is gradually lost with rising temperature-an abrupt change occurs at a certain heat above which iron, nickel and cobalt cease in effect to be magnetic. This critical temperature chemists call the Curie point. These two discoveries underlie the operating principle of a new alloy announced last week in Instruments...
...London Mrs. Neville Chamberlain reluctantly admitted that she had sent one of her husband's old shirts to a U. S. shirt collector. Said she: "If it gets about that 1 am giving away his clothes there would be no end to it. Why, he would very soon have no clothes left...
Sued for Divorce. Bette Davis (real name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis), 30, famed cinemactress: by her onetime-bandmaster and adman husband, Harmon Oscar ("Ham") Nelson Jr.; in Hollywood. His complaint: his wife was so engrossed in her profession that she "neglected and failed to perform her duties as a wife," flew into rages when asked to exhibit evidence of conjugal affection...
Died. Mrs. Flora Call Disney, 71, mother of Cinemanimator Walt Disney; asphyxiated by gas fumes escaping from a leaky furnace; in Hollywood. Her husband, Elias, 80, also overcome, was expected to recover...