Word: martha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that's supposed to be leaving the business. Goodman is making an awful lot of excellent changes. If he keeps on this way, he may soon be back to the level he was in 1935 when he had a band that really swung. And incidentally, it looks as though Martha Tilton, whose good looks far surpassed what warbling she attempted, is going to leave the band to marry its manager. Louise Tobin, Harry James' very pretty wife, who sang extremely well with Bobby Hackett, is going to handle vocals from now on . . . Artie Shaw, who has been suffering from...
...ranks of British diplomats is her Ambassador to the U. S. Since 1930, Britain's representative at Washington has been Sir Ronald Lindsay, a legate of long experience in Russia. Persia, France, Egypt, Turkey, Germany. His two marriages were with U. S. women: first to Martha Cameron, daughter of former Pennsylvania Senator J. Donald Cameron, who died in 1918, next to Elizabeth Sherman, daughter of the late Colgate Hoyt of New York...
...Manhattan Glamor Girl Martha Stephenson, newly wed to Bandleader Hal Kemp...
Born. To Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, 42, crack Eastern Air Lines pilot who made the first round-trip hop between the U. S. and Europe; and Martha Virginia ("Toby") Wing, 22-year-old cinemactress: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Fortnight ago newshawks found out they had been married since last June...
...William Edward Dodd, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany, hit four-year-old Negro Glois Grimes near Hanover Courthouse, Va. Dr. Dodd, arrested on a hit-&-run charge, pleaded not guilty. On trial last week, he changed his plea, threw himself on the mercy of the court. His daughter, Martha Dodd Stern, testified that he had declined mentally and physically since the death of his wife last spring. His lawyer said that he had already paid over $1,100 in hospital and doctors' bills to Glois Grimes's parents. The judge, who might have sent tired...