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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis Barnato Lady Plunket to visit Publisher Hearst's San Simeon Ranch, glided down to San Luis Obispo field in a heavy fog. The pilot overshot his mark, crashed. All three were killed. Next night, in Reno's various clubs, including Club Fortune, Mrs. Lois Clarke de Ruyter Spreckels Clinton, her divorced sugar-heir husband, Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., and two friends toasted each other until all hours. Before dawn they boarded Mr. Spreckels' private plane to fly to San Francisco. The plane rose 100 feet, nose-dived into a swamp. Results: a fractured pelvis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Divorced. Lois Clarke de Ruyter Spreckels Clinton, 26, daughter of retired Manhattan Banker Lewis Latham Clarke, from Frank C. Clinton of Boise, Idaho, whom she married day after her 1935 divorce from Sugar Heir Adolph B. Spreckels Jr.; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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