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...editor of the literary Harvard Advocate. Sailors of the U.S. Navy decided buxom Cinemactress Jane Russell was "the girl we'd like most to have waiting for us in every port," sent her six loving cups. Home with mother was Lenore Lemmon, ten-day bride of playful Jakie Webb. Lenore said she had found Jakie was tattooed from head to foot. "If and when I get out of this mess," said Lenore, "I'm going to marry a bricklayer, a . . . boy who's never even seen a nightclub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, 23 (great-great-grandson of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt), who last year was married for seven weeks, ran off with Manhattan's playful Lenore Lemmon, 18, to Moncks Corner, S.C. The bride, a refugee from Manhattan's Stork Club-excommunicated for scene-raising-had a bottle opener for a wedding ring. Blonde Vivian Stokes, 18, who canceled her debut after Jakie announced he would wed her, got the news of the elopement while she waited for Jakie in a nightclub. Said the ex-fiancée impetuously: "Jakie can have his Lemmon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Thistles | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...interest is the fact that the Marines' captain, Ted Webb dashed for England in the 1932 and 1936 Olympics. Webb played right fullback on the Marine aggregation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERKY LEADS SOCCER TEAM'S WIN OVER BRITISH MARINES | 10/1/1941 | See Source »

...signed by Lieut. Colonel James A. Webb, commander of Private Johnson's outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Yoo-Hoo in Writing | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, ex-sailor, kept the Vanderbilt family in the love news by declaring he was about to elope with Vivian Stokes, Newport's current glamor girl. Twenty-three-year-old Jakie, briefly married two years ago, is the wandering great-great-grandson of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune. Vivian, not quite 18, is scheduled to make a splashy Newport debut next week. Jakie turned up there after a three-month absence, declaring he had: joined Canada's Black Watch; ferried bombers to Britain; air-dueled with Germans. He wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Love at Newport | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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