Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, former dean of St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Detroit, married Isabelle Wilson Morrill, a divorcee, last year, many an Episcopal churchman was shocked into protest (TIME, Aug. 4). Last week Mrs. O'Ferrall went to Reno. "He criticized my hats and the way I dressed in public," she explained. "I've brought all my hats with me to Reno." The Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall said nothing...
...scripts had referred to Wyoming as the "most cordial. . . most fertile . . . most primitive" of states, to Utah as the state "where men have as many wives as they can support." In Nevada, the "two principal cities are in competition. In Las Vegas people get married and in Reno they get divorced." New England, said the scripts, was "founded by hypocrisy" and Texas...
...Albert Hibbs and Roy Walford, University of Chicago graduates who last year won $7,500 at Reno with a roulette system of their own devising (TIME, Dec. 1), turned up at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas. They played No. 9 for 53 hours, ran their $300 stake up to $1,200, began to lose, switched to 1 and 0. After three days they were still $700 ahead...
Bobo's Beau. Last October, she got a Reno divorce. She returned to New York, and with her sister Isobel moved back into the Third Avenue apartment where she had lived with Sears. Winthrop, who had gone to Yale, had worked as a roughneck in Texas oilfields, and been wounded off Okinawa, began...
Divorced. By Mignon Good Eberhart, 48, tireless producer of best-selling whodunits (26 in 18 years): second husband John Prince Hazen Perry, 65, Manhattan construction executive; after 14 months of marriage, no children; in Reno...