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Divorced. John Jacob Astor III, 56, portly playboy and great-great-grandson of the tycoon, by Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 39, his third wife, after 131 years of marriage (131 years of separation); on uncontested grounds of extreme cruelty; in Miami...
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...Wobbly" was often the first word of English they could speak. The term stood for Industrial Workers of the World, founded in Chicago in 1905 by a hot-eyed collection of Socialists, anarchists and native radicals, ranging from Big Bill Haywood to Eugene Debs -who had led the Pullman strike, the first nationwide confrontation of capital and labor in U.S. history...
...time is 1900, and Cinderella-here named Georgina-is in "the white folks' kitchen," mopping. Her mama, a five-by-five fortress of a woman (Lillian Hayman), argues that a mop is a Negro girl's best friend. But Georgina (Uggams) begs her prince charming, a Pullman porter named Clem (Robert Hooks), to take her away from all this. Together, they take the overground railway North...
...first version was created in the Stout Metal Airplane Co. (which Ford partly owned) by mongrelizing a single-engined plane, the "Stout Air Pullman." Only one of these bulbous-nosed trimotors was made flyable, and it was flown only once. Immediately after its hair-raising test flight, the pilot, Shorty Schroder, went to Ford and for several hours heatedly described its ungainliness and capricious lift characteristics. The next day Ford bought Stout's company...