Word: simpsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sloan Simpson, 36, New York City's onetime First Lady, came home after five social-whirling months in Europe and landed her pretty face all over Manhattan's front pages. Smiling brightly and flicking a black-gloved hand for photographers, Sloan (an ex-model) told shipboard reporters, "Let's not get into that," when asked why she had left William O'Dwyer. She is divorced from him, she explained, except in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church (she will go to Mexico to try for a church annulment). She spoke warmly about O'Dwyer...
...best man at the 1947 wedding of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, arrived back in England after an Italian holiday with Hungarian-born Cinemactress Eva Bartok (real name: Eva Szoke). Meanwhile, in Manhattan, the marchioness (the former Romaine Dahlgren Pierce ["Toodie"] Simpson, a Boston-bred divorcee) took legal steps leading to a divorce or separation suit. London reporters asked the marquess for comment on his wife's action, but it was too "difficult" for him to explain. As for Actress Bartok, he had met her a year ago, and "we . . . have been friendly ever since. That...
...years of railroading, Baltimore & Ohio's Executive Vice President Howard E. Simpson has built a reputation as a man who says what he thinks and knows what he is talking about. "Almost the first time I met him," says B. & O.'s President Roy White, who has been his boss for 17 years, "we had an argument over an idea of mine. He thought I was wrong, and ultimately I came around to his point of view." Last week the man who could give no for an answer was elected president of the B. & O., the oldest railroad...
Beefy, jovial Howard Simpson, 57, is one of the nation's few top railroaders to rise through the passenger department. He started as a clerk with the Central Railroad of New Jersey and hit almost every rung of the ladder on the way up to assistant general passenger agent. He joined B. & O. in 1931 and started grooming for the presidency a year ago. Said Simpson: "I plan no changes just for the sake of change...
...when the 32-year-old model caught the smiling Irish eye of the 58-year-old mayor of New York, they had both been married before. Mayor William O'Dwyer was two years a widower. In 1938, Texas-born, convent-bred Sloan Simpson had married an insurance executive named Carroll Dewey Hipp, a Protestant, in a civil ceremony, was divorced from him five years later. The Archdiocese of New York granted her a "declaration of free state," permitting her to marry again. Catholics are not recognized by the church as married unless they have had a Catholic wedding (though...