Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chico, the piano-playing Marx Brother, sued Warner Bros, for $200,000. His complaint: his name had been bandied about in the dialogue of Rhapsody in Blue without his permission. Furthermore, said he, he was quoted in the picture as endorsing certain pianistic techniques to which he would actually never...
Gold-mine Heiress Nancy Oakes de Marigny sued to annul her 5½-year-old marriage to Count Alfred de Marigny, who was acquitted in the Bahamas in 1943 of bludgeoning her father to death. Her charge: he was never validly divorced from his first wife.
Extreme Cruelty. In Lawrence, Mass., Mrs. Jeanie R. Gordon sued for divorce, said that her husband threw her parrot out the window when the bird snitched on him for coming home late. In Portland, Me., Raymond Bracey, seeking a divorce, complained that his wife not only served him pea soup...
¶ In California, three Negro professional golfers were barred from the $10,000 Richmond "open" golf tournament. The local club was willing to let them play, but the all-powerful Professional Golfers' Association, which all the leading pros belong to, has a "Caucasian clause." The three excluded golfers-Ted...
Last week, ex-Partner Ferguson played his last card. In New York's Federal Court, he sued Henry Ford II, Dearborn Motors Corp., the Ford Motor Co. and others for $251 million damages. He charged 1) patent infringements, and 2) conspiracy to monopolize the farm tractor and implement business...