Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fritz Mandl, sleek, shifty, Croesus-rich ex-Austrian arms manufacturer who has had his political troubles (he was blacklisted in 1944 by the State Department and is now rumored imprisoned in Argentina) ran into domestic trouble. He was sued for $80,000 in back alimony by his first wife, ex...
Sliver My Timbers. In Garden City, Kans., Daniel L. Osborn sued the oil company where he works, claimed that while on the job his wooden leg had been fractured.
James Hilton, 44, British author of gentle, sentimental novels (Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips), now a Hollywood scripster, was sued for divorce (his second) by exActress Galina Kopineck Hilton, 42. The charge: extreme cruelty.
Faith Bacon, ecdysiast extraordinary (she has used fans, fawns, feathers, flowers), sued the University of California for three sexy, pseudo-Grecian statues left it by Founder Henry Douglas Bacon, from whom she claims descent. Her demand: either remove the statues (which she has never seen) from storage in a University...
Errol Flynn's private life was again public property: 1) Hollywood heard that he would be sued for divorce by Nora Eddington, who last month named him as the father of her daughter (TIME. Feb. 12); 2) Nora denied that she would sue; 3) Flynn, as usual, had no...