Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Gloria Swanson, 49, siren of the silent screen (now making a comeback as mistress of ceremonies on a television show): fifth husband William M. Davey, 65, Wall Street yachtsman; after three years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...Hollywood, newshens of the Women's Press Club voted Errol Flynn and Rita Hayworth* the "least cooperative" actor and actress of the year. Runners-up: Bing Crosby (a perennial) and Shirley Temple. The "most cooperative": Dorothy Lamour, past mistress of the sarong, and Glenn Ford, Rita's most recent screen leading...
Butler did everything he could to insure himself against such a succumbing. In his bachelor apartment in London, he hoarded his independence like a miser. From behind this barricade he attacked every idea that he disliked, kept all distractions at arm's length. He had a French mistress, Mme. Lucie Dumas, for 20 years, during 15 of which he was too careful even to tell her what his name...
...life of General Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia. Boswell not only kept a copy of the letter he wrote Rousseau asking for an interview ("J'écris mal le francais,'' he apologized), but managed to get his hands on a letter Rousseau wrote to his mistress, Mile. Levasseur (Boswell had a brief affair with her, while escorting her to London...
...spare time, Saxon borrows the shirt off his writer's back, lies about his mistress (Audrey Totter) to ruin her prospects in Hollywood, pretends to love his ex-wife (Heather Angel) until he finds it unprofitable...