Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Myris Chaney, who caused a brief flurry of headlines in 1942 when she was taken up as a dancer by Eleanor Roosevelt and given an OCD job, was back in the news as a landlord. Now a milliner in San Francisco, she had solved her housing problem by buying an...
Walter Donaldson, veteran hit-songwriter (My Blue Heaven), was sued for back income taxes by the U.S., which figured that the author of Little White Lies and You're Driving Me Crazy owed $15,780, including interest and penalties.
Bill Mauldin, cartoonist of G.I. Joe (and Willie), who has sued his wife for divorce, charging adultery, drew a countersuit from her: that he had threatened to make off with Son Bruce, two. She asked a Los Angeles court to restrain him, also asked for $710 a month out of...
-After 1902's famed Danbury Hatters strike, Lawyer Merritt sued the A.F. of L. hatter's union under the antitrust laws, won the company a judgment of more than $200,000 against 191 union members.
Private Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, 27, playful great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, sued his wife for divorce while he sweated out a sentence, his second, for going AWOL. The wife: Cafe Society Character Lenore Lemmon, who married him in 1941 and abruptly went home to mother...