Word: suede
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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$600,000 Forgery. Cooper Hewitt's favorite discovery was the transformation of polyphase alternating current to direct current through the mercury vapor transformer. He decided suddenly, circa 1910, that "if a path of electric current were established across a tube which had a single negative electrode and multiple positive...
Sued for Divorce. Fletcher Martin, 39, Thomas Hart Benton's successor as chairman of the Kansas City Art Institute's painting department; by Maxine June Ferris Martin, 28, onetime Iowa hospital supervisor; after two years of marriage (his third, her first), ten months of separation; in Kansas City...
Common Carrier. In Salem, Ore., outraged Martha Hager sued a bus company for $28,000, declared that one of the company's workers had looked over a crowd of waiting passengers, including herself, and observed: "You all look like a bunch of pigs."
Sued for Divorce. By Ruth Mitchell, fiftyish, "blood-brother" of Yugoslavia's guerrilla leader Draja Mihailovich, sister of the late aerophile General William ("Billy") Mitchell: Stanley Knowles, British schoolmaster, her second husband; after 18 years of marriage, eleven of separation; in Reno.
Gene Sarazen, Golden Age golf champion, sold his 200-acre Connecticut farm to radio's Gabriel Heatter for some $85,-ooo, said he was through with "serious" golf for good, had got rid of the farm to concentrate on selling precision tools. Now 41, he observed: "Pretty soon it...