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Ax Murders to Heart Mends. Elizabeth Gilmer got her biggest break in 1901, when William Randolph Hearst lured her to Manhattan. She carried a wad of "get-home money" in her stocking, for her first six weeks in the big city. But she stayed, to become the greatest sob sister...
See How They Run. In Fitchburg, Mass, three white mice routed a nylon-stocking queue, left three males in line.
Fifth columnists had infiltrated the enemy's ranks before the British struck, assuring the arrest of some of the most notorious dealers, including the heads of the silk-stocking racket and the jewelry trust. A cigaret girl, who tucked most of her merchandise in her underwear, demanded immediate release...
Marriage Annulled. Fanny Taylor Baldwin Foote, 20, daughter of suave. Republican Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin III from Manhattan's "silk stocking district"; and Wallace Turner Foote. 26, Manhattan socialite. Representative Baldwin, appearing for his daughter, testified that his son-in-law had never consummated the two-year-old marriage...
Greer Garson let her temper simmer to a slow boil when a Hollywood stocking manufacturer claimed that she was bowlegged, had to wear padded stockings. Green-eyed, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Garson said that the only picture in which she showed her legs full-length was Random Harvest, insisted: "Those were...