Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral's desk was full of the "attaboy" letters that had poured in. From Texas had come a pair of spurs, on its way from Reno was a $2,000 saddle...
...irrepressible tabloid PM, wartime best-selling author (The Battle Is the Payoff), kin of oldtime New York's "400" arbiter, Ward McAllister; and Elaine Brown Keiffer Cobb, 29, LIFE editorial staffer; both for the second time; at Lake Tahoe, Nev., the same day she received her Reno divorce from Army Lieut. Mortimer Howell Cobb. The bridegroom wanted to have every step of the divorce and marriage filmed by his personal photographer, but a bailiff kicked the cameraman out of court at the divorce hearing...
Married. John Erskine, 65, best-selling romantic satirist (Adam & Eve, Influence of Women - And Its Cure); and Helen Worden, 49, journeywoman-writer and ex-New York World-Telegram reporter; he for the second time, she for the first; in Albuquerque, N.M., three days after his Reno divorce from Pauline Ives Erskine...
wants to ride through Tokyo on Hirohito's white horse, got encouragement from the Reno Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber ordered a custom-built, silver-mounted saddle for the Admiral, solemnly asked Washington for his beam measurements. "I wouldn't know about the posterior," said his daughter, Mrs. Preston Lea Spruance, a distant cousin (by marriage) to Admiral Spruance, "Daddy is about 34 inches around the waist, and his hips aren't much larger. Neither mother nor I has ever measured...
...years sobersided U.S. judges have muttered about the legality of Nevada's easy divorces. But armies of U.S. citizens went to Reno anyhow. Eventually, like the bull market of the fabulous '20s, Nevada divorce was accepted as a sound and logical American institution. Last week the crash came. The U.S. Supreme Court gave other states the right to deny Nevada's most cherished legal doctrine: that anyone spending six weeks within its borders has established a legal domicile, is thus entitled to a quick-won divorce...