Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Cecile White Stainback, 55, wife of Hawaii's Governor (since 1942) Ingram Macklin Stainback; after a brain operation; in St. Louis...
After nearly 3½ years as the watchdog of Wall Street, Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Edmond M. Hanrahan, 44, decided that it was time to watch his family's financial security and his wife's health. Last week, "with great reluctance," he resigned from the $10,000-a-year job to return to the Manhattan law firm of Sullivan, Donovan & Heenehan as a partner. No politico, Hanrahan considered SEC a regulatory rather than a reform agency, thus got along fine with Wall Streeters. Besides, he understood Wall Street's problems and talked its language. During Hanrahan...
...Them Stew." While fans tried to adjust to the latest milestone of the little girl who grew up so fast, the gossips tried to piece out fragments of feverish rumor. In Manhattan, Crooner Johnny Johnston, 33, stoutly denied any romantic involvement with Shirley. In Hollywood, his wife. Cinemactress Kathryn Grayson, 26, admitted that she had exchanged harsh words with Shirley about Johnston but, she added, all that was over now. Both Johnston and his wife accused Professional Golfer Joe Kirkwood Jr., 28, who plays Joe Palooka on the screen, of trying to brew a romance between Shirley and Johnston...
...typewriter pounds out stories of Tan the Wonder Dog, of Detective Jim Burdett, of the tenth-round comeback of Battling Ramsey. Later, influenced by Caldwell, Hemingway and Faulkner, he turns out endless stories of prostitutes, gangsters, murderers. In college he edits a highbrow magazine and runs away with the wife (five years older than himself) of a law student. After they have hitchhiked, ridden freights and slept in cheap hotels, she writes to her mother, who comes and takes her home, while Richard adventures on through the South. As social history, The Big Cage is sometimes authentic, sometimes unconvincing...
...original proprietor ran his shop until his death in 1930; his wife continued on as general manager and cashier until 1941, when Nicholas Lombardi, who had been working there for 20 years already, and John Capolupo bought the shop. This pair still heads the staff of barbers...