Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great need for more information on the problems of marriage," Mrs. Thelma G. Alper, lecturer on psychology, discounts the desirability of a formal academic course here on the subject. She vigorously denies the sweeping assertion of surveys showing that college graduates more unsuccessful matches than today's par for Reno...
Married. William Samuel Paley, 45, board chairman and principal stockholder of the Columbia Broadcasting System; and Barbara Gushing Mortimer, 30, svelte brunette daughter of the late great brain surgeon, Dr. Harvey Gushing; both for the second time; in Manhasset, N.Y. Five days before, he had been divorced in Reno by Dorothy Hart Paley, 38, who reportedly got a $1,500,000 settlement, after 15 years of marriage, two children (adopted...
Divorced. By Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, 60, one of baseball's alltime greats, whose early dabbling in Coca-Cola stock brought him a small fortune: Charlie Marion Lombard Cobb, 57, mother of his five children; after almost 30 years: in Reno...
...pert, pint-sized, hot-butter blonde, shuffling chips across the green felt, looked as radiant as a girl who has just graduated first in her class. To her bosses at Reno's Nevada Club, her air of achievement was not surprising...
Adele Marsh went to Reno in 1943 to end her brief wartime marriage to a Navy C.P.O. While she waited out the six weeks that make divorce-seekers legal residents of Nevada, she got a job behind the roulette wheel at Harold's Club, Reno's immense, noisy gambling joint which spends some of its million-dollar profits to endow scholarships at the University of Nevada (TIME, June 17, 1946). She also enrolled at the university, which is only a few blocks from Harold...