Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Tommy Dorsey, 41, balding bandleader who is billed as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"; by onetime Cinemactress Patricia Dane ("Tommy," she announced, "is the first person I'll have a date with when I return to Los Angeles"); in Reno...
Five hundred U.S. mules, earmarked for Greece as part of the $300 million aid program, have been undergoing "gentling treatment" at Fort Reno, in Oklahoma. They will sail from New Orleans in September. Since mountainous Greece is not like flat Oklahoma, the mules may find it hard going at first. But at least there will be no language difficulty, for these mules will have U.S. skinners: 50 hard-bitten G.I.s...
...going back home to Montebello, just outside Los Angeles, and he is looking forward to playing some golf-which he hopes to take up seriously some day, as Ellsworth Vines did after he made almost $200,000 out of pro tennis. (Last week, by tying in the Reno Open, Vines added $1,600 to the approximately $50,000 he has earned in five years as a golf pro.) Late in the month, Kramer will play in the Pacific Southwest Championships at the cement-courted Los Angeles Tennis Club...
...society, got scooped on a gossipy item involving his stylish wife, Austine Cassini, writer of society gossip for the Washington Times-Herald. In a rival paper, Cassini read a breathless, unconfirmed rumor that "Bootsie"-dubbed last year the Most Magnificent Doll Among American Newspaperwomen-had settled down in Reno to divorce...
Divorced. Eugene Ormandy, 47, the Philadelphia Orchestra's balding, barrel-chested maestro; by onetime Harpist Steffy Goldner Ormandy, fiftyish; after 25 years, one child; in Reno...