Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the most conspicuous feature of the interior of the Hebner menage was a man's corpse lying in the storm cellar. The corpse-apparently several months old- was wearing a belt which looked like one that had belonged to Will Hebner. Authorities began to look for his wife, presently found her in Dade County, Fla. living with a man named Grover. Invited to return to Pocahontas to shed some light on the matter, Mrs. Hebner did so. Last week the coroner's jury to whom she told her tale, scarcely knew whether to be more bewildered...
...using the name of Samuel Sullivan. Asked where she had acquired her taste for polygamy, Mrs. Hebner readily obliged. Will Hebner had deserted her shortly after their wedding, remained away for some 30 years. On his return, by which time she had been a widow and a wife again, he had told her his real name, revealed that while she had been contracting two marriages he had contracted 19, mostly to correspondents of a matrimonial publication called Cupid's Messenger. The two joined forces and Cupid's Messenger, thereafter, became the Hebner handbook. Mrs. Hebner advertised herself...
Eleven motorcars, flying official Government flags, tore out of the capital last week, took safely to France numerous Leftist personages, and Donna Luis Companys, wife of the President of Catalonia. On foot to France 6,000 persons fled from Leftist Spain. To 5,000 of these who had belonged to the Leftist militia the French Government refused admission. However, it was now the fast-growing Soviet Machine against the German-Italian Machine, and Spaniards found themselves facing the possibility of a civil war prolonged indefinitely-unless the swift, victorious Rightist offensive of recent weeks should quickly prove decisive...
SAVAGE SYMPHONY-Eva Lips-Random House ($3). Forthright account by the wife of Anthropologist Julius Lips (The Savage Hits Back) detailing the steps by which Nazis forced her husband from his post as director of the Museum of Ethnology in Cologne, then into exile-by searches, denunciations, cooked-up charges, a steadily intensifying atmosphere of fear...
...year-old Confederate Captain Thomas Keys, who fought on opposite sides around Atlanta. Campbell's diary is brief, unilluminating, but Keys, who had been a newspaper editor, wrote vividly of the battles of Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Nashville, of a journey through Union country to visit his wife & children at Helena...