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Word: reno (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other interests, except the spectator sports and an occasional game of billiards. He goes almost everywhere with a bolstering entourage of yesmen, who run his errands and remind him at frequent intervals that he is terrific. In 1941 he married Showgirl Joyce Mathews, a striking blonde who got a Reno divorce six years later. Still friendly, they share custody of an adopted daughter, 3½year-old Victoria, on whom he lavishes deep affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Child Wonder | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Shubert, 74, who likes plenty of publicity for his 16 Broadway playhouses, was still being shy about his private life. It took a Reno divorce last September to disclose the fact that he had been married for twelve years to former Actress Marcella Swanson, some 30 years his junior. When newsmen learned last week that Shubert had remarried Marcella in February, again in secret, he informed a reporter: "I have no objection to your printing that it is an authentic rumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: No Place Like Home | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Mobilhome Corp. has turned out 361 houses from its Bakersfield and San Jose "factories," has unfilled orders for 113 more and is still expanding. Kern plans to license additional factories in Sacramento, Stockton, Palo Alto, Reno, Milwaukee, Detroit and probably Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Cutting the Corners | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, former No. i ranking U.S. tennis player (during the '305) and Davis Cupper (1934); by Donna Marina Torlonia Shields, 32, daughter of the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Monte Carlo's Casino, out for the U.S. dollar, decided that the way to get it was in a good old American way. Last week, Louis Ceresol, boss of the money-losing Casino (TIME, May 3), and one of his croupiers visited Las Vegas and Reno, Nev. to learn how to shoot craps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Risk Capital | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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