Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another famed widow of a famed husband Death came last week. Elizabeth Genevieve McEvoy ("Bessie McCoy") Davis expired in a Bayonne, France, hospital after an emergency operation. In 1912, aged 24, Bessie McCoy married Richard Harding Davis, swashbuckling war correspondent for the New York Tribune, playwright (The Dictator, Miss Civilization], author (Soldiers of Fortune, The White Mice). Witnesses: Actress Ethel Barrymore, Author Gouverneur Morris...
...Bessie McCoy won stage fame as the Yama-Yama Girl in The Three Twins in 1908. Her big song...
Word came that Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), eccentric fisticuffer who was imprisoned six years ago for killing a woman, would be paroled from San Quentin (Calif.) penitentiary in December 1932. Ford Motor Co. of Detroit agreed to be responsible for him for the next six years, will give...
...Rudy Vallée, 29, redheaded, crooning orchestra leader; and Fay Webb, 23, slender, beauteous, brunette daughter of Chief of Police Clarence Webb of Santa Monica, Calif.; secretly; in West Orange, N. J. In 1928 Crooner Vallée was married for three weeks to a Mrs. Leonie Cauchois McCoy. He took Mrs. Vallee No. 2 to live in a six-room apartment at No. 55 Central Park West, Manhattan. Two days after the wedding they gave a press reception. Excerpts...
Last week's fourth commissioning was spectacular. Naval officers in dress uniform brightened the crowd of 600 special guests on the pier. From the quarter-deck Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton read official orders putting the Constitution into active service. The colors and jack were hoisted, the first watch set. Command of the vessel was turned over to Commander Louis J. Gulliver...