Word: marva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, married Oilman Jack D. Wrather Jr., 23, in the executive mansion at Austin. Pappy had invited everybody, but most of the 6,000 who showed up never got inside, ≤≤ Joe Louis was ordered to double his wife's support, pay Marva $200 a week. ≤≤ John Henry Hammond's daughter, Alice Hammond Duckworth, will marry Swingmaster Benny Goodman when she gets her divorce from George Duckworth, a Briton she left in Britain to sail home in the West Point. ≤≤Satin-haired Singer Harry Richman, freshly divorced by wealthy...
...Louis socked her twice, said high-styled Marva Trotter, suing for divorce. She also asked a cut of the $800,000 she says the Champ has salted away out of his $2,000,000 earnings (see p. 46). Joe denied everything. "We had arguments," he said, "but I thought them was settled. Lotsa married folks have 'em." Shortly Joe left for Chicago to try to settle this one. ∽∽ Meantime, Billy Conn, the almost-champ, pulled a sneak wedding to 19-year-old Mary Louise Smith, went into hiding at Promoter Mike Jacobs' home in Rumson...
...Detroit, where Negro Idol Joe Louis got his start, went Earl Brown, on leave from the Amsterdam News. There he talked with Manager John Roxborough and his wife, with some two dozen Louis friends and hangers-on. In Chicago he spent an evening with Marva Louis, Joe's wife, while she told her troubles. Back in Harlem, he saw Al Monroe, onetime Louis pal, Negro staffwriter for the Chicago Defender. Then Editor Brown wrote his story...
Consensus of the opinions of these Louis intimates: "Joe is a big, likable kid, but not too bright," spendthrift, sleepy, easygoing as an Alabama field hand. Marva Louis told how nonsmoking, nondrinking Joe frittered away fabulous sums of money on cab fares and cabaret checks for his friends. Trainer Jack Blackburn admitted that Joe didn't care much, one way or the other, about fighting. From newspapers and court files Earl Brown traced Manager Roxborough's connections with the numbers racket, Manager Julian Black's impressive police record. Some of the more lurid facts about the Louis...