Word: meldrim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most famed of Yale footballers, Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy was All-America fullback in 1908 and 1909, a member of Walter Camp's All-Time-All- America team. After graduation, he entered brokerage and insurance. His first wife was Sophie Meldrim, Savannah, Ga. socialite who divorced him in 1925. His second was Actress Jeanne Eagels, who divorced him in 1928. His third was one Lottie Bruhn of El Paso, Tex., who dropped from sight after his death last September. Last week, as the pawnbroker wrote to Skull & Bones in New Haven which immediately bought Coy's relics, newshawks...
Died. Peter Wiltberger Meldrim. 85, presiding judge of Georgia's Eastern Judicial Circuit, onetime (1914) president of the American Bar Association, onetime (1897-99) mayor of Savannah; in Savannah. After the Civil War in which he, 16, sniped at Sherman's troops on their way to the sea, he studied and practiced law, became a power in Georgia politics...