Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Phyllis Haver Seeman, 46, bouncy, blonde bathing beauty of many an oldtime Mack Sennett custard-slinging silent film: William Seeman, 53, millionaire Manhattan wholesale grocer (White Rose brand); after 16 years of marriage; in Reno. Said she: "Bill has too much vitality. I'm getting older and want a little peace...
...Bogart, Hollywood's favorite Dead End kid (45), made it official: he will marry slow-burning Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, 20, his co-star in two pictures (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep). When: as soon as his third wife, Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot, serves her six weeks Reno residence for a divorce. Where: the Ohio farm of friend Louis Bromfield...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco almost ran down her newest romance (according to the gossip columnists) when Maestro Leopold Stokowski stepped off a train at Truckee, Calif, into a Sierra Nevada snowstorm to help wait out her Reno divorce (due April 20). Meeting him in a secondhand Cadillac which she had just learned to drive, Gloria released the clutch as he crossed in front of the car. Only a cadenza-like leap saved him. Unruffled, the heiress drove him to her Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working...
Leopold Stokowski, pale-maned maestro, since 1937 the great & good friend of Greta Garbo, was reported making nightly long-distance calls to Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who just inherited $4,500,000. "Friends" said that she would join him in Mexico as soon as her Reno decree comes through. Gloria and the maestro maintained a Garbo-like silence...
Married. Niles Trammell, 50, shrewd, soft-spoken president of the National Broadcasting Co.; and Cleo Allen Black, 41; both for the second time; in Queenstown, Md., one week after his Reno divorce from Elizabeth Ruth Huff Trammell, 42 (alimony: $1,000 a month...