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Divorced. Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 28, lion-shooting tin-plate heir ($9,000,000) ; and Latin-eyed Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 23, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000); after four years of marriage (his second); in Palm Beach. She got custody of Sandra Emerson Topping, 3, and Henry Junkins Topping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Approved by a Los Angeles court was a seven-year cinecontract to pay a weekly minimum of $150, a maximum of $1,250, to Hollywood Newcomer Mimi Chandler, 16-year-old daughter of Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...base. Jay Cooke III, great-grandson of the famed Civil War financier, an ex-socialite now a rock-jawed, boot-tough soldier, won a lieutenant colonel's silver leaves on maneuvers in Louisiana (see cut). Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler's 16-year-old torchsinging daughter Mimi went to Hollywood from Kentucky, won a screen test that won her a seven-year contract with Paramount. Into a movie as vocalists with jump-&-jive Bob Crosby's band went a pair of richly endowed twins (see cut): scrumptious Lee & Lynn Wilde, 18, who swore they were the grandnieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: How It Is | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Married. Actress Mimi Lilygren ("Jo Ann Sayers"), 23, who played the title role in My Sister Eileen; and Ensign Anthony A. Bliss, 29, ex-husband of Publisher Marshall Field Ill's eldest daughter, Barbara; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...proud that the San Carlo has given many U.S. singers (among them Queena Mario, Richard Bonelli, eight others who graduated to the Metropolitan) their first big opportunities. His latest cause for pride is pretty, blonde Soprano Dorothy Kirsten, who brought a fresh, appealing voice and promising style to her Mimi, Micaela and Nedda during the last fortnight. A former telephone girl from Livingston, N.J., she later did secretarial work and scrubbed floors to pay for singing lessons. Grace Moore met her in a radio studio, took her in hand, got her into the Chicago Opera Company. Says Fortune Gallo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in the Black | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

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