Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James M. Cain, 53, cold blood-&-thunder novelist whose second wife complained he once threw her clear across the room, was sued for divorce by Wife No. 3 -oldtime cinema siren Aileen Pringle, 45, who had lasted almost two years with him. The charge: cruelty.
On May 21, the No. 1 U.S. grain trader, Cargill, Inc., let out a yowl. Cargill, famed for cornering corn in 1937, had again bought heavily in corn, anticipating the OPA action. Now, with six million bushels on hand, it stood to lose "in excess of $1 million" if it...
Obstructionist. In Trinidad, an irate landlord sued David Cork for plugging the water tap.
Eight to the Bar. In Boston, Mrs. Catherine Bills sued for divorce, got it. Grounds: Husband George beat her-in tune to the radio.
Kay Williams, curvilinear cinema pinup* sued by Argentine Playboy "Macoco" (Martin de Alzaga Unzue) for $35,000-odd (she took his gifts and then ditched him, he complained), made an interesting retort. She had married him once, and living with him was "too dangerous," she protested. She declared that he...