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Martha ("Mickey") Devine Dodge, ex-Ziegfeld beauty who once hit headlines by hitting Primo Camera on the chin at a Paris nightclub, charged her wealthy (automobiles) husband with assault. Major Horace E. Dodge Jr. had been "very rough," she said. Served with a summons in a suit for separation (she wants $60,000 a year alimony), he had stopped in at her Park Avenue apartment, ripped a diamond ring off her finger, yanked a diamond pin from her waist, nearly got a diamond necklace-but that dropped down the front of her dress. She dropped the assault charge after...
Giustizia mosse il mio alto Fattore; fecemi la divina Potestate, la somma Sapienza e il primo Amore. . . . Lasciate ogni speranza qui voi ch'en-trate...
...fighting, Joe Louis did pretty well. In the winter of 1935, six months after his first professional match, New York boxing promoters already had their eyes on him. One of them was shrewd Mike Jacobs, Broadway ticket speculator, who was looking for an up-&-coming heavyweight to fight giant Primo Camera for the benefit of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's pet charity, the New York Milk Fund...
Veteran Tennist Jean Borotra, now Vichy's Sportführer, forbade "Hello, ma, I'm glad I won," and all other remarks into radio microphones by sports winners. His reason: they hurt the dignity of sport. . .Lumbering onetime Fisticuffer Primo Carnera, who tried cinemacting for a while, has taken up wrestling. . . A Pittsburgh judge gave Heavyweight Billy Conn a suspended sentence and a lecture for speeding and driving without a license. . .Corporal Hank Greenberg, ex-Tiger outfielder, was arrested for speeding at Fort Custer, prohibited from driving on the grounds for a month, put on K.P. . . . In Chicago...
Beneficiary of this shake-up was the Primo de Rivera clan, the royal family of the Falange. Falangist Arrese married a cousin of Founder José Antonio Primo de Rivera. But the big gainer was Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suòer, who as head of the Falange's Junta Politico, outranks Secretary General Arrese. Just how much Serrano and the Falange had gained was made clear in another decree removing the division of press and propaganda from the Ministry of Government and placing it in the hands of the Falange...