Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incompatible. In Reno, Nev., nine-year-old runaway Melvin Rogers Lewis Jr. arrived from Oakland, Calif., announced that he had come to get a divorce from his parents...
This, in TIME, must shock all thinking men. Nor is this the first time in recent years that this same gross error has marred your factual pages. I humbly suggest that TIME reporters may search throughout this perilous world, from icebound Greenland to hellbent Reno, from Glasgow to Shanghai, and not find so much as one bottle of Scotch whiskey with which to fortify themselves in their admirable pursuit of truth...
Divorced. William Force Dick, 29, half-brother of John Jacob Astor; by Virginia French Dick, 29, sister of the first Mrs. John Jacob Astor; after five years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
Willie Molter, who never says two words if one will do, learned his lesson the hard way. He comes from Fredericksburg, Tex. (pop. 3,500), also the home town of Max Hirsch, trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Assault. As a jockey on dusty, jerkwater tracks in Reno, Emeryville and Butte, Willie blew most of his apprentice salary finding out that nobody could tell who was going to win. Says he: "I couldn't even pick the winners I was riding myself." His toughest job is trying to hold down his five owners (including Movieman Louis B. Mayer, whose second...
Divorced. Margaret ("Peggy") Guggenheim Ernst, 48, uninhibited daughter of the late copper mogul Benjamin Guggenheim, exhibitionist of nonrealistic art; by Maximilian Maria ("Max") Ernst, 55, prizewinning surrealist (Temptation of St. Anthony) ; after five years of marriage (three of separation), no children; in Reno...