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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Elizabeth Brite Shevlin of Manhattan, daughter of the late famed Yale Footballer Thomas L. Shevlin; to Paul Morton Smith, son of the present Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, wife of the famed Manhattan banker; in Greenwich, Conn., secretly last April, when Mr. Smith was a Yale undergraduate...
Sued for Divorce. Noah H. Beery Jr., cinema villain (Beau Geste) of Los Angeles; by Mrs. Marguerite W. L. Beery, who charges that Villain Beery continued his "villainous conduct" at home...
...chewers who will chew Wrigley's Doublemint gum in 1929 will realize that the use of the word "Doublemint" is costing the Wrigley company almost $2,000,000. Back in 1911 the L. P. Larson gum company, claiming prior rights to the word "Doublemint," sued Wrigley for its use of this brand name. After a -year battle, Wrigley Gum and Larson Gum have settled the quarrel by payment of $1,900,000 to the Larson company...
Like almost every presentable young club member in Manhattan, Anthony Biddle Jr., has been called the city's best dressed man. At the age of 18, he married Mary L., the 28-year-old daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke, the tobacco king.* Tongues wagged and darted, but the Biddies, in Palm Beach, Newport and Manhattan, for which they had deserted the native Biddle heath of Philadelphia, gave evidence of marital contentment. Tony Biddle played tennis, squash and swam, occasionally boxing at the Racquet Club to show that he was not afraid of being hurt, thus found many business enterprises...
...Anthony Biddle's sister married the brother of Mary L. Duke; after a divorce she remarried Thomas Markoe Robertson, famed architect who has a snake tattooed...