Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vincente Gonzalez Pardo, grandson of Peru's onetime president Manuel Pardo, and ex-Wife Ruth Piper Hollingsworth Foran Chatfield Pardo (four husbands) were sued in Manhattan by Hattie Carnegie Inc. for unpaid bills Wife Ruth had run up between the separation and divorce. A few items: a mink coat...
Silent Treatment. In Detroit, Deaf Mute Kenneth Downing sued for divorce, got it. Grounds: wife-nagging in sign language.
Joan Crawford, who had just won her first Oscar, sued to divorce her third husband. Actors Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Franchot Tone had each lasted almost four years. Actor Philip Terry and she separated last December after three years and five months. Said she, he was cruel and inhuman.
Madeleine Carroll, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (for Red Crossing), was sued for divorce after four years by Stirling Hayden, holder of Yugoslavia's "Order of Merit to the People" (for running arms to the Partisans through the Adriatic blockade). Wartime duties had kept them apart.
José Iturbi, warm-blooded conductor-pianist, shaved & bathed in cold water for a few days, then took action against his Los Angeles plumber, who had his hot-water heater. The plumber, charged Iturbi, hadn't carried out a repair job as promised, but demanded $50 before he would...