Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Downington, Pa., in the Indian Run farmhouse of Henry Huddleston Rogers III, grandson of one of the founders of Standard Oil, servants heard a shot one evening, ran upstairs to Mr. Rogers' bedroom. Lying on the floor with a bullet hole in her temple, a pearl-handled revolver at her feet, was Evelyn Hoey, honey-blonde torchsinger (Fifty Million Frenchmen). When police arrived they found Actress Hoey dead, Host Rogers stumbling drunkenly about the front lawn muttering about his "sweetheart." Told that Rogers & Hoey had spent the day in alcoholic bickering, police clapped Host Rogers and a male house...
...time a friend of languorous Scottish Actor Jack Buchanan who used to sing Eliza to her and nearly got her a part in a cinema. Three years ago she graduated to Bandster Roy, who calls her "Dedi" because simple Sarawak natives know her as "The Dayang Pearl." Mr. Roy rides mornings in Rotten Row, crickets on his private cricket field, encourages "Momma" Litman to cook when friends drop in for a party at his flat at No. 60 Park Lane. Leaving Mrs. Litman in the flat, Mr. & Mrs. Roy have rented another flat in the same building, eight floors above...
Married. Fritzi Burger, Austrian ice-skating champion; and Shinkiki Nishikawa, grandson of Japanese Pearl Tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto; in Vienna...
...Stutz Motor stock provided some excellent advertising by rising in a brief period from $70 per share to $724. That was the notorious "Stutz Corner" engineered by Allan Ryan, son of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan who in his will cut off his speculative heir with a set of pearl studs...
When 43 navy seaplanes recently flew from Pearl Harbor to Midway Island, a late copy of TIME was handed to Mr. Perry. He declined to read it because he would not break into his regular order of reading TIME. Incidentally, that particular copy of TIME went back to Pearl Harbor in one of the seaplanes that made the first non-stop flight over this lonely section of the Pacific Ocean...