Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grounds. In Miami, Stephen Contos sued his Greek-born wife for divorce because she refused to adopt the U.S. swim suit. In London, Stanley George Edwards won a divorce when he complained that his wife not only hit him with a poker, threw a bread knife at him and sprinkled tacks on the bedroom floor, but put brilliantine in his sugar...
...steak $1.00. ¶ In Michigan City, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Agnew, 33, had her dentist arrested for assault and battery. The dentist, she said, had pulled a dozen of her teeth without permission, gave her no anesthetic, took a drink of whiskey after each extraction. ¶Cincinnati Common Pleas Judge Stanley Struble, 82, took a long look at a series of magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down to the buff, acquitted a news dealer of peddling obscene literature. Said Judge Struble: "The front views, as well as the other views, are of God's own children. There cannot...
...Arizona and Texas, Consolidated is the biggest independent steel fabricator west of the Rockies. Its sale (for $8,293,319) would give Big Steel, which already has well over 51% of Pacific Coast ingot capacity, the lion's share of the fabricating capacity as well. This, said Justice Stanley Reed, who wrote the majority opinion, would in no way violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. "Size has significance ... in an appraisal of alleged violations," he conceded, "but the steel industry .is also of impressive size, and the welcome westward extension of that industry requires that the existing companies go into...
Intangibles In London, Baron Stanley of Alderley sued for divorce after four years of marriage. The baron's lady: the Transatlantic Set's pastel blonde Sylvia, who was Lady Ashley before she succeeded Mary Pickford as the late, gymnastic Douglas Fairbanks' wife...
...night last week hulking (230 lbs.) Rufus Stanley Woodward, sports editor of the New York Herald Tribune, was called on the carpet. When he left the office of Managing Editor George Cornish, Woodward was out of a job (after 18 years on the Trib). Woodward had made the Trib's sports section one of the best in the U.S., but he had asked for trouble. He had criticized the firing or forced retirement of several staffers. And when the management asked what two men he could fire for economy, he had sarcastically suggested: "Columnist Red Smith...