Word: tilton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said one Tokyo silk exporter last week: "Among silk exporters the Honorable Tilton is on a level equal to the mulberry leaf and the silkworm." The Honorable Tilton is Marion Elizabeth Tilton, 35, the tall (5 ft. 9 in.), pretty Far East boss of Cohn-Hall-Marx (Cohama Fabrics). In the last ten years, almost singlehanded she has rewoven Japan's quality silk industry, putting it in shape to compete in the U.S. with the flood of postwar synthetics. Under the tutelage of the onetime New York model and wartime Red Cross girl, Japan's silk output rose...
Shocking Medium. The confession was the outcome of a weird triangle. Tilton had long worshiped Preacher Beecher as "my man among men." Beecher, who had married the Tiltons back in 1855, visited their home constantly, hinting freely at his own marital unhappiness. Tilton would say: "There is one little woman down at my house that loves you more than you have any idea...
After the little woman confessed that the love between her and Beecher was not merely spiritual, bushels of self-abasing letters were exchanged. The three met tearfully in Mrs. Tilton's bedroom. "I kissed him and he kissed me," Beecher later recalled, "and I kissed his wife and she kissed me, and I believe they kissed each other." With that, all hoped to hush up the affair...
...late. The Tiltons were great pals of the suffragettes, and Mrs. Tilton's secret became known to the sharpest battle-ax of the women's movement, Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull. "The Woodhull," as the papers called her, was a freeloving fortuneteller and spiritualist who, according to Commodore Vanderbilt, furnished him with valued market tips; on the platform she would point to her "brevet husband," a Civil War veteran named Colonel Blood, and yelp: "There stands my lover, but when I cease to love him, I shall leave him." When The Woodhull was attacked for living a libertine life...
Flowery Denials. A special investigating committee of the Plymouth Church, chosen by Beecher, pronounced the pastor innocent. But in the end, Husband Tilton's forbearance gave out, and he sued Beecher for alienation of affections...