Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the corpse of his 40-year-old fiancee, Mrs. Verna Carr Taylor, "most beautiful woman in two counties," had been found with a bullet through the heart and his .45 calibre revolver lying nearby (TIME, Nov. 23), 60-year-old Henry H. Denhardt, onetime Lieutenant Governor and Adjutant General of Kentucky, declared he had not fired a gun for six months. He suggested suicide. Paraffin tests for traces of nitrates, as from gunpowder, were made of both their hands. Last week Coroner D. L. Ricketts of La Grange announced that the tests indicated Mrs. Taylor had not lately fired...
...Damn what the coroner says!" barked General Denhardt in the Louisville hotel room where, freed on $25,000 bail after arrest for Mrs. Taylor's murder, he had secluded himself under a nurse's care...
...General submitted to the test good-humoredly, though protesting that he did not see why it was necessary. Before she was buried, a similar test was made of Mrs. Taylor's hands. Results were to be revealed at an inquest...
...warrant, sworn out by Mrs. Taylor's brother, charged the General with her murder. The inquest was promptly adjourned. General Denhardt was led off to the office of the County Judge, where bail of $25,000 was furnished by his old friend Dr. Arthur T. McCormack, president-elect of the American Public Health Association. A hearing was set for this week. Meantime Mrs. Taylor's body was exhumed. Examination revealed that she had been shot from the front, the bullet having struck her breast, pierced the heart, come out the back. At once officials attached great importance...
...universal appeal, the editors craftily included eight Charming Chinese children at the country's only Chinese parochial school, in San Francisco's Oriental quarter. To please ladies, LIFE'S cinema hero-of- the-week was Hollywood's "beautiful" Robert Taylor, who plays opposite Greta Garbo in Camille to be released shortly. Following this feature, LIFE presented four other memorable Camilles: Bernhardt's, Ethel Barrymore's, Theda Bara's, Eva Le Gallienne's. A memorable color shot from the live theatre showed Helen Hayes & Co. in the great third-act pageant of Victoria...