Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henderson is known to her friends as Betty and to the public as the woman who put a 71-year-old leg up on a table in the Metropolitan Opera bar last fall. The divorce was a young friend's-handsome John Alden Talbot Jr., whose wife had taken umbrage at his public attentions to Lana Turner. Betty Henderson liked the young man, and wanted to give him a party...
...marriage ended in tragedy. One night when he was on the Mexican border -on a tour of duty during which he later pursued "Pancho" Villa-his house in San Francisco's Presidio caught fire. His son Warren was saved, but his wife and three daughters were burned to death. His severity and ramrod correctness simply seemed to increase...
Married. Irving McNeil Ives, 52, New York's up & coming G.O.P. Senator; and Mrs. Marion Mead Crain, 46, his secretary; each for the second time (his first wife died last year); in Bethesda...
...from Virginia. Lanky, red-haired Bob Garst is all newspaperman; marriage, remarked a friend last week, is about his only hobby (his wife used to edit the Times's letters column). A Virginian, Garst first worked for the Times as a morgue clerk while studying at Columbia's School of Journalism ('24). He has been on the Times news staff for 23 years, for the past two years as assistant night managing editor. In his spare time, Garst wrote (with Timesman Ted Bernstein) a widely used manual on copyreading, Headlines and Deadlines, and taught journalism at Columbia...
...perhaps Author Compton-Burnett's finest novel. Its principal character, Family-Head Horace Lamb, is a typical Compton-Burnett tyrant-one who believes that he has sacrificed his whole life to his family and never misses a chance to remind them of the fact. He has married his wife, Charlotte, for her money, "hoping to serve his impoverished estate, and she had married him for love, hoping to fulfil herself. The love had gone and the money remained, so that the advantage lay with Horace, if he could have taken so hopeful a view of his life." Also dependent...