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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Miss Taylor was discovered at the Westchester County, N. Y. estate of Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville Jr., asbestos heir, who is separated from his wife but plays public host to a beauteous blonde "secretary" and a beauteous brunette "French teacher," Last week Manville happily gibbered to news hawks: "Miss Taylor is no relation at all, ex cept that I am in love with her. . . . This isn't Utah. I am already married. But if I am ever divorced from my wife. ... I may marry Nancy Carroll." †With Norma Taylor...
Left. By the late Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, whose mother, miserly Hetty Green, specified in her will that the family fortune remain intact; to his sister, Mrs. Sylvia Green Wilks, an estate estimated at $80,000,000; in Port Henry, N. Y. Mrs. Mabel Harlow Green got nothing, but was made administrator of the fortune by a Texas judge. Claimed last week by officials of New York, Massachusetts, Texas and the U. S. were $65,000,000 in inheritance taxes...
...commercial possibilities, George von Schilling copyrighted the name "Master Stan and His Sousaphone," induced a costume firm, Lilley Ames Co. of Columbus, Ohio, to provide a $100 cream-&-gold uniform for Stanwurt. Father von Schilling got engagements for Stanwurt and himself at Norfolk clubs, at the local Navy Yard Y. M. C. A., and at nearby Virginia Beach. Last week, with Stanwurt 4 years old, George von Schilling announced that his sole job from now on was to be his son's manager. Turning up at a music store in Utica, N. Y., where the von Schillings...
Married- Mrs. Cora Lillian Bennett, widow of famed Aviator Floyd Bennett; ant Arthur Hoffman, Manhattan music copyright investigator; in Brooklyn, N. Y...
...Brockport, N. Y., Maxwell Breeze, 14, was drowned July 4 as he swam in the Erie Canal. Friends insisted that a cur (Airedale+wolfhound) named Idaho had climbed Breeze's back, forced him under. Ten days later Daniel Houghton, 21, said Idaho had nearly drowned him in the same manner. Straightway he took the case to court, demanded Idaho's death. A storm of controversy blew up & down the land. Dimes and quarters were sent for Idaho's defense. Hired with the money, Harry Sessions, Rochester attorney, pleaded the dog's youthful playfulness. As crowds cheered...