Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the glaring lights of Reno's Harold's Club last week a dozen ugly, hybrid* mice blinked beady eyes at the crowd of divorcees, lawyers, barflies crowding into the gambling room. Manager R. I. Smith was trying out a new invention. An attendant hauled a shrinking mouse out of a coop, dropped him on a flat, glass wheel. Frightened, the mouse started to sprint. The wheel spun. When it began to slow down, the mouse sought shelter in one of the 56 glass cages, each marked with a playing card. This time he darted beneath the jack...
Married. James Drummond Dole Jr., second son of the founder and board chairman of Hawaiian Pineapple Co.; and Virginia Brown, Los Angeles stenographer; in Reno...
...contrives to be moving in spots. Mary Haines, happily married, learns of her husband's infidelity from a manicurist, but too many of her friends have their claws polished by the same girl. The story is out; it is enlarged and twisted until the unwilling wife fices to Reno, letting her husband marry Crystal, form the perfume counter at Saks. For two years she lives with her children in seclusion, brushing up on technique. Then one day Little Mary comes home from visiting Daddy and drops the remark that Auntic Crystal isn't the saint she might be. From there...
Divorced. Robert Bangs Colgate, vice president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.; by Pamela Camroux Colgate; in Reno...
Divorced. Ogden Haggerty ("Oggie") Hammond Jr., son of the onetime (1925-29) U. S. Ambassador to Spain, by Edythe Sterling Hammond; in Reno...