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...damage to his reputation as a producer. // Franchot Tone told the district attorney he gave a jeweler $14,100 to buy a diamond-and-sapphire clip, sell it, and split the profits; but the jeweler put the clip in hock and never gave back the money. // Nelson Eddy and stepson settled an $8,723 damage suit against them for a traffic accident. // A cinemagoer who said he tripped over Chico Marx's sprawled legs in a theater sued Chico and the management...
Construction has a prodigal stepson for which a real feast is spread about once a generation, usually combined with war: shipbuilding. And 1940 was its festal year. For Admiral Stark's two-ocean Navy, shipyards launched a naval vessel every twelve days; few were the Washington glamor girls who had not smashed a bottle on a prow. The Maritime Commission at year's end had 932,000 gross tons of merchant shipping under construction, was launching a vessel a week (last week's: the 17,500-ton Rio Parana, for New York-South America service). The venerable...
...Pankey is reported to make out Joe Yule's pay check over at MGM. Mickey's step father does Joe Yule's boy a good turn too sometimes, by driving the 40-mile round trip to Pasadena, picking up Mickey's dates for him when Stepson Rooney is too busy...
...first marriage to Anna Wilmarth Thompson, who died in a motor crash in 1935, Mr. Ickes has a son, Raymond, now 26, who last month got a job in the U. S. Attorney's office, Manhattan. He had a stepson, Wilmarth, who committed suicide in 1936. He and the first Mrs. Ickes also had two foster-children: a girl who is now Mrs. ReQua Bryant of Evanston, Ill., and Robert H. Ickes, 25, onetime WPA clerk, now employed by Duquesne Light Co. in Pittsburgh, who last week eloped with Marcelle Charlotte Levine, 19, to Lisbon, Ohio, where they were...
...Gentleman), but his newspaper ventures turned to lead. He bought and killed off three famed Philadelphia newspapers to keep his morning and evening Public Ledger alive, also acquired the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Inquirer. Before he died in 1933 he turned over management of them to his stepson-in-law, John Charles Martin, who got his business start selling coat hangers to villagers along the Ohio River...