Word: varner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Jack Frye, 36. big go-getting president of T. W. A.; and Helen Varner Vanderbilt, 32, who month ago divorced onetime newspaperman Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.; in Echo Canyon, Ariz. Burbled she of her husband: "He is really what a woman dreams for-the most wonderful man I have ever met. ... I guess the romance really developed from my criticism of T. W. A.'s advertising. I said...
Divorced. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., nomadic writer and onetime publisher; from Helen Varner Vanderbilt; after six years' marriage, during which Mrs. Vanderbilt, his third wife, sought several times to file separation suits, was frustrated on each occasion because process servers could not locate the restless Vanderbilt trailer; in Carson City...
Book One is a sort of muted epic on those tricks of sharp rural trading which become the legendary material of country store gossips. It tells how cold Flem Snopes, a tenant farmer's son, gains complete power over Will Varner, who virtually owns the town. Other Snopeses turn up on the horizon...
Book Two is a piece of natural history in human terms: the story of a queen bee. Eula Varner is a semi-superhuman embodiment of unmitigated sex, already embarrassingly female at the age of eight. As she ripens, the male community establishes itself in quavering, fighting concentrics of courtship: first raw boys, then slick sports in shiny buggies. But it is Flem who finally gets her. He takes her to Texas...
Seeking Divorce. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., thrice-married, gadabout, society author & lecturer; from Helen Varner Vanderbilt; in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: three years' separation. (Last month Mrs. Vanderbilt announced she would sue Vagabond Vanderbilt for divorce if he stopped in one place long enough to be served...