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Despite her career, Mrs. Murphy says that she leads a normal married home life with her husband, Jack J. Murphy (also in the textile business), and a 22-year-old daughter by her first marriage. Says she: "Successful women aren't so unusual that they Harvard." have to be kept in a bottle at Harvard...
Though she is moving into her new job at a time when textilemen are having rough going, she thinks the worst is over as far as Stroock's is concerned. Profits dropped 11% in its last fiscal year, but for this fall sales were 73% above last year - at least partly because of her plugging of Stroock's famed vicuna, kashmir, llama, alpaca and other exotic fabrics. Explains Mrs. Murphy: "We haven't invented any new animals. We've just made the old ones popular by hard work...
...screen for more than a year, onetime Wunderkind Deanna Durbin, now crowding a plump, matronly 28, made a public appearance in Los Angeles last week as the latest in a star-studded line of applicants for divorce...
Deanna testified against her second husband, 47-year-old Felix Jackson, who helped to write some of her early hits (Mad About Music, Three Smart Girls Grow Up), and produced her most recent flops (I'll Be Yours, Because of Him). She told the judge that a year after their marriage in 1945 (his fourth), Jackson "started a series of unhappy moods and a certain restlessness." She added: "About six months after that, he told me he was unhappy being a married man and preferred being single ... He left me, went to New York City, hasn't been...
...court wrote the standard ending: divorce granted. Deanna would get custody of three-year-old Jessica Louise...