Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 44, thrice-married motorcar heir, was busy last week with a full program of marital madcapping. After days of long-distance objections (Stamford, Conn, to Denver) to the proposed marriage of his son, Corporal H. E. Dodge III to Margery Gehman, redheaded daughter of a...
Past Masters. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Mrs. Joseph Pearlman, saying that she had been married ten years and "should know the facts of life," sued to make her 78-year-old stepfather return her copy of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Teresa Wright, blue-eyed cinemactress (Casanova Brown, Shadow of a Doubt), and her husband, Niven Busch, Hollywood writer-producer (In Old Chicago, The Westerner), were sued for $15,000 by their cook, who charged that Busch's eleven-year-old son (by a previous marriage) had shot him in...
Robert Donald, Hamilton, Ont., is one of Canada's 6,900 Jehovah's Witnesses.* He had sued the Hamilton school board for $2,600 after his two sons had been expelled from school for refusing to salute the flag, sing God Save the King or repeat an oath...
Loretta Young, who paid $8,500 down on a ten-room Hollywood house owned by Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel, longtime friend to bigtime gangsters, was sued by him for the balance of $85,000. She explained that the deal depended on Bugsy's eliminating all the house's "termites...