Word: lila
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Henry Luce III, 23, Hoover Commission staffer, and Patricia Potter Luce, 22, daughter of John S. Potter, an officer of the Bank of China: their first child (and first grandchild of TIME Editor Henry R. Luce), a daughter; in Washington. Name: Lila Frances Livingston. Weight...
...Evans, who would get a further hearing on her dismissal plea, was picked up in a 3:30 a.m. raid on a gambling joint. The charge: vagrancy. Hinting that she was being persecuted, Vickie cried: "I'm through with Hollywood. I want to go home to Philadelphia." Starlet Lila Leeds was being sued for return of a $1,000 engagement ring by an ex-fiance who had been trying, without success, to get either the ring or Lila. At week's end Mitchum's attorney, Jerry Giesler, drove into a tree, suffered broken ribs and "profound shock...
...midnight, two detectives, who had been listening outside a rudely furnished three-room shack in Laurel Canyon, just back of Hollywood, fumbled at the kitchen door. Dancer Vickie Evans, hearing them, opened it from the inside. In the living room with the hostess, a pert blonde movie starlet named Lila Leeds, and Robin Ford, a scared real-estate man, the cops found big, sleepy-eyed Cinemactor Robert Mitchum. The handsome $3,000-a-week screen hero hastily tried to get rid of a cigarette that turned out to be marijuana. A detective found other "reefers" on Mitchum, Ford and Miss...
...Lila Lee, saucer-eyed, doll-faced heroine of the silents, was "feeling fine" after two years at a Saranac Lake, N.Y. tuberculosis sanatorium, was set to be up & about (in Manhattan) next week...
Married. Henry Luce III, 22, son of the editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; and Patricia Livingston Potter, 20, daughter of John S. Potter, a Bank of China director, who flew from Shanghai for the ceremony; at the home of Mrs. Lila Tyng, the bridegroom's mother, in Gladstone...