Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nagel Nahan Ruppenthal, wife of Philip Ruppenthal '45 IL, will play Lady Percy, and HDC veteran Helen McCloskey will portray Mistress Quickly...
Born. To George Howard Earle, 56, stocky, outspoken ex-Governor of Pennsylvania, ex-U.S. Minister to Austria and Bulgaria, and second wife Jacqueline Marthe Jermine Sacré Earle, 25, brunette Belgian beauty whom he married in Turkey two years ago: a daughter (her first child, his fifth); in Philadelphia. Name: Jacqueline. Weight...
Died. Mary Blair, 52, onetime Broadway actress, onetime wife of Litterateur Edmund Wilson (the first of his four); of tuberculosis; in Pittsburgh. Leading lady in several Eugene O'Neill plays, she created a furore in 1924 when, as Negro Actor Paul Robeson's play-wife in All God's Chillun Got Wings, she nightly kissed his hand onstage...
...Lincoln law partner and biographer (with Jessie Weik), get his due. He loved and respects Lincoln, but he insisted on telling what he believed to be the truth: about the illegitimacy of Lincoln's mother; Lincoln's religion, or lack of it; his feeling about his shrewish wife. Herndon's theory was that Mary Todd helped Lincoln to success by driving him from the house to the sanctuary of office and politics. Of course, Mary Todd disliked Herndon intensely, and didn't help when he, trying to compliment her on her physical grace, awkwardly likened...
...dress," she said, "and he turned thumbs down on all the new lengths. 'But,' said the saleswoman after I had modelled everything in my size for his approval. 'everyone, simply everyone, is wearing the new skirt!' 'Madam,' he retorted, 'would you regard me as a character who wants his wife to look like everyone...