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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To William Augustus ("Wild Bill") Wellman, 43, crack cinema director (Nothing Sacred, Men With Wings), and his fourth wife: a daughter, their third child; in Hollywood...
Married. Ina Fagan Whitaker Gilbert ("Ina Claire"), 46, stage & screen star, onetime wife of the late John ("Garbo") Gilbert; and William Ross Wallace Jr., 40, able San Francisco attorney; she for the third time; he for the first; in Salt Lake City, Utah...
...dawn Peter Corbett, junior partner of Johnson, Bellinger & Corbett, rose drunkenly from the clammy garage floor. He was wet, grease-smeared, his head ached and he was sick at his stomach. His wife and baby lay huddled asleep in the back seat of the Austin. In a junior bed, flanked by the garden roller and a sandbox, slept Phyllis, 6, John 3. The nurse lay rolled up in an eiderdown beside...
That night, because it was moonlit, they expected worse hell. But no bombers came at all. The next night it rained again. Again at midnight the bombs fell. Neighbor Littlejohn was wounded, his wife killed. Death missed the Corbetts by inches. Enemy planes had bombed blind, from above the clouds, taking sextant bearings from the stars...
...Bardsville sensitive young Perse Munn returns after a term in a St. Louis law school, is mixed up in the affairs of the tobacco farmers' cooperative before he knows what it is to mean to him, to his pretty wife, or to the Trust. "Purposes and ideals of the Association," says a member, "is to make those son-a-bitching buyers pay me what my tobacco's worth...