Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Doris Duke Cromwell, 30, "richest girl in the world": James Henry Roberts ("Jimmy") Cromwell, 47, ex-Minister to Canada; after eight years of marriage, her first, his second; in Reno. Cromwell recently obtained in New Jersey a permanent injunction against her Reno action, later announced that he would contest the divorce...
...Arpad was invited to the annual luncheon of the Men of '88 Club, an affair at which survivors swap tall tales about New York's famed Blizzard of 1888. An amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week a woman admirer sent him a nonskid perch made of sandpaper...
...that what coal the nation had was in the wrong places; the strikes had dislocated normal distribution. Labor trouble was another obstacle to righting distribution: while New Yorkers shivered last week, a longshoremen's wage dispute slowed unloading of 300 carloads of New York-bound coal at a Jersey City pier...
...disease looked suspiciously like a dirty Republican trick. But the strong gust of wind that blew the tent down, making it necessary to hold the auction in a crowded, drafty barn, was definitely an act of God. Even so, for a registered herd, the bids were suspiciously low. Jersey cows went at $100, and the owner stomped off in a huff when $10 was bid for a young bull. Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s whole herd of 100 purebred dairy cattle at his Fishkill, N.Y. farm brought a total of $15,598-only half again as much...
...Frank Sinatra reserved a room in the maternity ward of a Jersey City hospital for ten days beginning this week...