Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kyoto's Widow Morgan...
Your article about Mrs. George Morgan [TIME, Dec. 22] and the accompanying cut is both conceived and written in extraordinarily poor taste. Your willingness to accept the evidence of a cheap Japanese novelist is right in keeping with the tradition of yellow journalism...
Arline, 35, has been married five times, including one three-year stretch with Bob Topping's older brother Dan (who has been married four times). Arline's other husbands: Cinema Director Wesley Ruggles, R.A.F. Captain James R. Addams* and Huckster Vincent Morgan Ryan, to whom she was still married when she met Bob in Hollywood and fell "plain mad nutsie in love...
...California game warden brought home the biggest bag of the 1947 duck season: Cinemactors Clark Gable, Frank Morgan and Johnny Mack Brown. The warden said that he had caught Morgan with 13 dead ducks, Brown with 16; but He-Man Gable had been staggering along with 25 (21 above the legal limit). Nonsense, Gable huffed, he had not shot a single duck. After consultation with an M-G-M lawyer, the warden decided that, on recount, Gable had really shot only six. With everybody (except the ducks) feeling better, the party was fined $200 apiece...
Last week, the manuscript from which Thackeray read was published-in facsimile -by Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library. It was a handsome $35 book, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Americans might have seen some of Thackeray's illustrations before (in the Everyman's Library edition), but the Morgan copy was in Thackeray's own neat, minuscule handwriting, and in his watercolors. Thackeray's absurdly hawk-nosed countesses, spindle-shanked kings, periwigged barons, and tubby, pimply princes looked as fresh as if he had just laid down his pen and brush upon...