Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next? There was Elliott Roosevelt, of course, and his actress wife, Faye Emerson. Meyer claimed to have picked up over $1,000 worth of their hotel, bar, party and race-track checks. On the distaff side, the names read like theater marquees or the roll call at Hollywood's Central Casting. Actresses Lana Turner, Linda Darnell and Ava Gardner were said to be on the committee's list. A leggy, blonde ex-riveter named Judy Cook declared that she had been paid $100 to put on her swimming act in the Hughes pool for visiting dignitaries. Actress Myrna...
Public Servant. Then in 1931 Wisconsin's Governor Phil La Follette asked him to join the state's public service commission. Lilienthal walked the streets of Madison all night, turning the offer over in his mind. Next morning he telephoned his wife, asked her advice and accepted the $5,000-a-year job. La Follette said that that night Dave Lilienthal decided to make public service his career...
...Lihua's role was that of a widow, down to her last dress. She advertises for a husband and gives the impression that she is an heiress. The villain, a wealthy Chinese, reads the ad while in a barber's chair. Fearing his own wife's reactions if he answers it, he persuades the handsome barber to pretend that he is the tycoon, marry the girl, split the profits later...
...chivalry of General George S. Patton lived after him in a tale told by a German slave-laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said...
...finish, Robic pumped his way ahead. A few hours later, he zoomed victoriously across the finish line in Paris' Pare des Princes, raising both hands over his head in a risky gesture to the glory of France. Then he rushed into the arms of his pretty brunette wife, whom he had married three days before the race began. His time: 148 hours, 11 minutes, 25 seconds. His prize: 500,000 francs ($4,197.50) and a probable three or four million francs more in future exhibitions and endorsements...