Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Los Angeles, Whodunit Authoress Craig Rice (Home Sweet Homicide) was sued for divorce by her fourth husband, Writer Lawrence Lipton. Said Lipton: "It was murder. I could never get a decent night's sleep."
James McNeill Whistler's stock was going up. Bought from a Manhattan dealer by the Detroit Institute of Arts was the waspish Victorian dandy's famed Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket-the splattery nightscape that moved John Ruskin to a crack about "a coxcomb flinging...
The old cowboy hero's only child, William Jr., promptly sued to break the will, which had left him nothing. He charged that Father William had been "mentally incompetent."
Novelist Louis Bromfield was having international trouble, too. One of the Parisian characters in his three-year-old What Became of Anna Bolton was a "Madame Ritz . . . widow of the great César Ritz. . . ." He called her "a great woman," but he let her die. Last week alive-&-kicking...
Just when it seemed as if he could hang on no longer, Young sued Ball, and collected $4,000,000 (including Ball's Alleghany holdings) from him on the grounds that even the low price of the $2 billion empire had been rigged too high. Then Bob Young persuaded...