Word: jersey
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Doris Duke Cromwell, whose Reno divorce from James H. R. ("Jimmy") Cromwell (null-&-voided by a New Jersey court) was upheld last week by a Reno judge, was dropped, together with ex-Husband Cromwell, by the stuffy New York Social Register's newly issued 1945 edition...
...minutes of mental hand-springs on his part but he did astound the class, proving that "bags without handles are no good." The class laughed, but Bernie knew he had not "missed the point" and was therefore happy. Note also the breathless response which this brought up from New Jersey...
...states: Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsylvania...
Died. Frank Marshall, 67, U.S. chess champion from 1909 to 1936 (he tried only once for the world's championship); of a heart attack; in Jersey City. Tightlipped, cigar-chewing Marshall played at least one game a day for 57 years, took a chessboard to bed to accommodate nighttime inspiration...
Hague Reprieved. For the first time in 100 years, New Jersey voters had a chance to get a new constitution, better than the old in two respects: it would have simplified state government and courts, would have made municipal officials subject to ouster if they refused to answer a legislative committee's questions. Jersey City's imperious Mayor Frank ("I am the law") Hague opposed it. So did the Roman Catholic priests (still smarting because there were no tax-supported busses to take children to parochial schools), the state C.I.O. and the A.F. of L. (because...