Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their first was Just Plain Bill, a village barber, who has been spouting homely homilies for eight years. Others followed in profusion. By 1935, when Frank married Anne after the death of his first wife, both were vice presidents of the company, Frank with salary and commissions totaling some $117,000, Anne drawing a modest...
...produces 50 serial scripts a week, a total of some 6,500,000 words a year. In their Greenwich, Conn. home Frank and Anne figure out the trends of their serials four to six weeks in advance, dictate outlines to a battery of stenographers. Outline for an episode (Backstage Wife) may read something like this: "Suspecting that Cynthia Valcourt murdered Candy Dolan with Ward Ellman's gun, after Tess left the fiat, Mary, Larry and Ward rush to Tony Valcourt's penthouse to have a talk with Tony and Cynthia, having sent Tess Morgan to her apartment. Arriving...
Married. Brian Grover, 37, British engineer, and his wife, Elena, 36; for the second time; in London. Last November, when he wanted to rejoin his Russian bride, Grover was unable to get a Russian visa, flew into Russia without a permit, was jailed. Last fortnight he was let off with a fine of 1,500 rubles ($300), allowed to take his wife to England. The second marriage ceremony was necessary because the first was not recorded by a British consul...
Divorced. Charles A. Levine, 41, fabulous Brooklyn junk dealer who accompanied Clarence Chamberlin on his 1937 European flight as the first transatlantic airplane passenger; by his second wife, Delia Doris Levine; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty. For more than a year Levine has been in Northeastern Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., serving a two-year sentence for smuggling tungsten into...
Died. Emma Eurana Dinkey (Mrs. Charles M.) Schwab, 79, wife of Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s longtime board chair man; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Daughter of the first steel works chemist in the U. S., Mrs. Schwab helped her husband in experiments in a private laboratory during the first years of their married life. Later she devoted her time to extensive, unostentatious philanthropy...