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...Markey's mother had once forded a stream with Jesse James and "had spent half her life in parts of the country where more men carried firearms than carried timepieces." But still she had ideas about being "civilized" that seemed strange and irksome to a six-year-old Indian fighter. She was always after him to practice his reading and tirelessly corrected his pronunciation of such rich Oklahoma English as "An' thar was the ol' she-b'ar with two yearlin' cubs acomin' thu the bresh by the crick." Mama cried, too, when Markey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oklahoma Boyhood | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Spittoons & Specials. Life became more exciting when Papa had to sell the claim he staked in The Run and moved his family into Enid. From the second-floor porch of the midtown office building where they lived, Markey was edified by a clear view into the high-fenced enclosures provided by Enid's saloons for patrons to sleep it off. "Gillespie Brothers was the best for sights. At Sunday-school time on Sunday morning you might see the forms of men who had been there all night, still as stiff as cordwood." Markey met the heavy financial demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oklahoma Boyhood | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

WILLIAM J. MARKEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1944 | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Bennett Wanger, 33, and Producer Walter Wanger, 48, her onetime boss: their first child, a daughter; after two and a half years of marriage, in Hollywood. Weight: 6 lb. She is also the mother of 15-year-old Diana (by John Fox), 8-year-old Melinda (by Cinemawriter Gene Markey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 5, 1943 | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

Married. Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Kiesler), 28; and John Loder, 45, British-born actor; each for the third time; same day he divorced his second wife; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Vienna-born cinemactress' first two ecstasies were Austrian Munitions-Maker Fritz Mandl and American Scenarist Gene Markey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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