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Married. Thomas Philip Perkins, one-time (1928) British amateur golf champion, runner-up in this year's U. S. open (TIME, July 4); and Cecile Bushal Upton, half-sister of Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner; in Farmville...
...Hopkins, legally advised and directed many a Latin-American revolution. Among their clients: Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Adolfo de la Huerta, the republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan in their attempt to gain independence from Soviet Russia. His son, Sherburne Philbrick Hopkins, was Peggy-Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner's second husband. Died. Frederic Cook Morehouse, 64, editor of The Living Church; of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. He was an active lay-leader in the Anglo-Catholic group of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He survived his wife by one day. Died. Paris Eugene Singer, 66, famed sportsman...
Born in Norfolk, Va., with the fairly respectable name of Margaret Upton, Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner was only 15 when she ran away, fascinated, with Trick-Cyclist Heurtin, who promised to teach her how to turn a somersault on a bicycle and thus become a great actress. Mr. Heurtin was like a father to her, the simp, but in Colorado she met Everett Archer, who fluttered her; she married him, discovered that "Love is not beautiful and romantic; it is horrible and disgusting." Two days were enough; she went back to Norfolk with the apprehensive Mr. Heurtin...
...herself, "and just flew at him." The divorce was a "teriffic ordeal" for Peggy?over 4,000 newspaper columns. She won, and her share was about $2,000,000. After a fling in Earl Carroll's Vanities, Peggy went legally to bed again?this time to Count Gosta Morner. He lasted six weeks. The Earl of Northesk (of Vanities Jessica Brown fame) and Count de Janze were later also-rans. Someone, said to be prominent in the automobile business, lately gave her the very biggest diamond she could find at Black, Starr & Frost's?a 127-carat stone called...
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, collector of husbands and jewels, purchased from Black, Starr & Frost of Manhattan the finest blue diamond in the U. S. Weight: 127 carats. Cost: $300,000. She will wear it, mounted in platinum, around her neck. Her latest husband was Count Gosta Morner, from whom she was divorced...