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...When Marva Trotter, a socially ambitious Chicago stenographer, married Joe six years ago, she hoped, like most wives, to make him over. But Joe Louis, still an unsophisticated, overgrown kid, steadfastly refused to go high-hat. He still won't go to the theater, read books, talk politics. But he can talk till the cows come home about swing bands, baseball, golf and his saddle horses, Flash and Annabelle White Star...
...While Marva likes to hobnob with the Negro upper crust in Manager Roxborough's palatial French Provincial house, Joe prefers the company of his old pals. A few days after he won the world's championship from Jim Braddock in 1937-while Negro society was burning wires to get him to their salons-Joe was in Detroit, sitting on a dirty curbstone, eating apples and arguing with the boys about his prowess as a softball player...
Manhattan's fanciest divorce story of the season collapsed as Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt suddenly dropped her suit against her young sportsman husband and "an amicable separation" was announced. ∙ ∙ In Chicago Joe Louis and his Marva suddenly became reconciled in the midst of a battle over temporary alimony. Joe carried her from a courtroom in his arms, exclaiming: "Boy, this is like getting married all over again!" Announced was a "trial reconciliation," dated to run till Sept. 29-day of the Nova fight. ∙ ∙ To Barbara Hutton, in Los Angeles, wired Cinemactor Cary Grant, in Mexico...
...publicity; $1,000 for the support of a boat; $1,200 household expenses; $2,000 personal upkeep for himself and wife Lili Damita; $1,395 for miscellaneous this and that. The judge decided $12,000 was plenty. ∙ ∙ Joe Louis filed a plea in Chicago to have wife Marva's $200-a-week temporary alimony halved. He said his fighting does not bring him $250,000 a year-only $56,000, after taxes. ∙ ∙ In Manhattan wealthy Private Joseph Paterno Jr.'s mother asked a court to knock $50 off the $400-a-month separate maintenance...
...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...