Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, 20, poor little rich girl whose legal troubles began at ten in a noisy custody squabble between her socialite mother (Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt) and her sculptress aunt (the late Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney), planned another trip to court. This time she will ask a formal separation from her nightclub-brawling, ex-Army-lieutenant husband, Pat di Cicco, 35, actors' agent. Married at 17, Gloria once observed: "What can one say of a first marriage except that it's wonderful?" Approaching her 21st birthday and a $4.5 million inheritance, she broke the news...
Horse-and-Buggy Substitute. Dr. Richardson concedes that not all patients need treatment as a family, but insists that many do-the prosperous as well as the poor, people with infections as well as those with indigestion (he tells of one woman who got sleeping sickness when her mother had a stroke "and remained unconscious until after her mother's death...
...most heated discussions were about taddad zawjat (polygamy). Said one delegate: a peasant who takes several wives brings misery upon them all. Only a rich man can afford this luxury. Unanimously the women voted: no polygamy for the poor...
...Hope, far-darting favorite of U.S. servicemen, dropped in on Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club to receive its 1945 Gold Medal of Achievement for his "notable deeds at the war fronts and in the training camps." Gagged Hope: "As a matter of fact ... I thought Poor Richard was a guy who bet on Dewey...
...Harry was deserting them in favor of glitter and wealth. But long before he met his present wife, Hopkins had had many friends among the rich?the Whitneys, the Harrimans, the Forrestals, the Stettiniuses, the John Hertzes?moving as effortlessly in their circles as he once did among the poor of Manhattan's lower east side. Bernard Baruch's wedding present to the Hopkinses was a sumptuous dinner for 50 at Washington's Carlton Hotel? a fairly routine affair of its kind, which raised the blood pressure of anti-New Deal newspapers...