Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madge Bellamy, wide-eyed star of the silents, sued for a divorce of a sort from Lumberman Albert Stanwood Murphy, whom she scared with some wild shenanigans last January 'for allegedly jilting her (TIME, Feb. 1). Murphy had been honeymooning with his new bride at that time. Alleged Madge Bellamy last week: under Nevada law she and Murphy have really been married since 1941, though without any ceremony, since Nevada considers it already a marriage when two people make up their minds...
...Wonder. But Lumberman Cox was no babe in the woods. He was smart enough to listen to the manager he had hired: the onetime Boy Wonder, Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, who has learned plenty in the 19 years since he led the Washington Senators to a world championship...
Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour, tireless troop entertainer, whose picture is a pin-up favorite of far-flung Army barracks, decided to marry a soldier whom she met on tour. He is Army Air Forces Captain William Ross Howard III, 35, peacetime Virginia lumberman, onetime Maryland state legislator. Captain Howard and the onetime elevator girl applied for a license in Los Angeles. She had a little difficulty filling out the application, consulted her agent when she came to the space marked: Occupation. Said the agent: "You're a movie actress, remember?" The marriage will be the second for each: her first...
Doing road work (see cut) with his new-bought baseball club, the perennial last-place Phillies, was apple-shaped Owner William D. Cox, 33-year-old Manhattan lumberman, onetime catcher at New York University. He looked like a good prospect for his own talent-shy team...
With a little gun that had "been in the family for years" ex-Cinemactress Madge Bellamy, 39, curly-haired, wide-eyed star of the silents (Ankles Preferred, Silk Legs, Summer Bachelors), fired three shots at 53-year-old Lumberman A. Stanwood Murphy as he emerged from San Francisco's swank Pacific Union Club. Murphy high-tailed it for cover, untouched, and Madge gave up quietly. To police, who charged her with assault with a deadly weapon, she explained that she had wanted to scare him, that he had ditched her after his divorce and married somebody else. Released under...