Word: hylan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regarded by fan magazines as a "true love" match, to famed blon.de Cinemactress Carole Lombard, ended by her death in a Nevada air crash, January 1942. Recently Gable has squired ex-Model Anita ("The Face") Colby (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945), blonde Cinemactress Virginia Grey, and moneyed Widow Laura ("Dolly") Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien...
Helen Morgan's path from ribbon counter to Broadway included detours into a biscuit factory, nursing, posing for step-in ads. While modeling in Montreal, she was chosen Miss Mount Royal, whisked to New York City by an enterprising press agent, where she was greeted by burbling Mayor Hylan as a "Canadian beauty." Promptly signed up by Billy Rose as singer for a small hotspot, she couldn't make herself heard or seen until the late, great Ring Lardner boosted her to the top of a piano. After that, she always sat on one to sing her husky...
...other "pork" contained in a $1,000,000,000 rivers & harbors bill now before a House committee. If SPAB uses that power, it will doubtless run into the same trouble as did the Baruch board-which had to beat down opposition from the Senate, from such characters as Mayor Hylan of New York City, whose $8,000,000 school project was stopped...
Died. James Jay O'Brien, 55, broker, gentleman jockey, member of the victorious 1932 U. S. Olympic four-man bobsled team; of heart disease; in Palm Beach, Fla. His first wife: Silent Cinemactress Mae Murray. His second: Stage Actress Irene Fenwick. His widow: Laura Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien, former wife of the late Julius (yeast) Fleischmann...