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...most cases still playing cards or dominoes while exact details of the terms on which they fully intended to resume work were being drawn up, much as the families of a French bride and groom haggle over the marriage settlement while the engaged couple are only too anxious to wed...
onetime wife of millionaire Indian Jackson Barnett, for the widow's share of the $4,000,000 estate which the Government seized after Barnett's death two years ago. On the grounds that she and two men forced the demented old redskin to wed her, her marriage was annulled two months before Barnett's death. Since then, lower courts have held that she cannot share in the rich oil estate. Last week, in Los Angeles, frustrated, 50-year-old Mrs. Lowe published a lurid booklet named Truth to air her grievances. Twenty-three pages long, Truth...
...Manhattan court ordered pink-cheeked, white-whiskered Realtor-Philanthropist August Hecksher, 88, to continue paying plump, blonde Operasinger Frieda Hempel, 51, $15,000 a year for the rest of her life. Thus aired was an interesting domestic relationship. In 1926 Singer Hempel divorced her husband, supposedly to wed Millionaire Hecksher. Year later, she sued Millionaire Hecksher for breaking an oral contract to pay her $48,000 a year to "sing for no one but him." Philanthropist Hecksher settled with a written contract to pay her $15,000 a year for life, in return for which he retrieved numerous letters...
Arriving in Chicago, oldtime opera singer Mary Garden scoffed at reports that she was about to wed elderly Radio Impresario Edward Bowes, explained: "The Major is a dear, sweet lovable man. We are very good friends, but not lovers. Can't you understand friendship...
Divorced. James F. Goodman, railway conductor & nudist; by Susie Wise Goodman; in Los Angeles. Grounds: desertion. Smartly attired, she explained to the bench that her "health wedding" to Nudist Goodman on the shores of Lake Elsinore (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933) was a "publicity stunt," that they had previously been wed, fully clothed, in New Mexico...