Word: patent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revealed was the fifth marriage and divorce (eleven days later) of glittery, fire-haired Patent Medicine Heiress Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney. Briefly questioned in Manhattan was Husband (in name only) No. 5, a Swedish waiter who said he was 4-F (adenoids). Having lost her passport to the State Department, which disapproved of her Nazi friends, the heiress had paid the hard-up waiter $1,500 to make her a Swede, promptly got a Swedish passport, shortly skipped to South America with some half-million dollars of her fortune. Now living in a white-columned villa in Buenos Aires, she says...
...Colonel Charles B. Marduc of the advertising agency of Marduc, Syco & Sagg, who will not handle any patent medicine, liquor or contraceptive ads, caring for them "through a separate firm with which his name wasn't even connected." The Colonel's ambitious daughter would not hesitate to blackmail, double-cross or kidnap him. Cracks he to her: "You must have been bumming around with some new lover-maybe your husband...
...that when the echoes of the great struggle die down ... the world would be surprised to see that, in spite of the great catastrophe broken loose by the Reds, Spain could re-establish her situation . . . without any outside help . . . and that the rebirth of Spain-we can conclude -is patent in all its orders...
Died. Frank Clayton Ball, 85, fruit-jar tycoon; in Muncie, Ind.* When the Mason jar patent expired in 1883, the Brothers Ball (Frank, Edmund, George, William and Lucius) turned from fish kits to glass preserving jars, acquired a virtual monopoly in manufacturing them, became one of the Midwest's wealthiest families. Aged Frank, who spent his summers in Leland, Mich., commuted to work by plane...
...quite so patent as advance notices has predicted, a strong Yale swimming team, sinasing only one record en route, downed the Crimson mermen 50 to 25 before a large crowd at the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday night...