Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GWTW's Gerald O'Hara) remarried his former wife, 25 years after they were first wed. ∽∽ Rosalind Russell, Hollywood's No. 1 Bachelor Girl, denied plans to elope with Agent Frank Brisson, denied still more emphatically that she was 34 and Brisson ten years younger, ∽∽ Torchsinger Lillian Roth won an annulment of her marriage to Manhattan Importer Eugene Weiner on the ground that he had misrepresented the character of his past. Month ago he drew a six-month jail sentence for blacking...
Died. William Guggenheim, 72, philanthropist, maverick younger brother of the copper & nitrate tycoons; in Manhattan. He retired from active participation in the family's businesses in 1900, 16 years later sued Brothers Isaac, Daniel, Murray, Solomon and Simon for $10,000,000, charging they had induced him to waive rights in Chilean mines of whose values he had been ignorant...
Tough, stone-bald, peasant-born Marshal Semion Konstantinovich Timoshenko is about as young a marshal as a great nation ever had. That is his advantage, for while not all young generals are geniuses, most of history's generals with genius have been younger men. It is many generations since Russia has produced a great general and perhaps...
...post-Verne Marshall Gazette is doing well. With circulation at an all-time high (44,701), it now prints news on the front page, carries on more moderately and grammatically under capable former Associate Editor Harry E. Boyd and Verne's younger, smaller, quieter brother Clare. Said Editor-in-Chief Clare Marshall to his staff: "We're still a strong crusading paper. But when you have a grievance, keep it out of the news story...
Airmen's Admiral. There are two schools of ranking naval airmen. In one are "the Pensacola Admirals"-oldtime surface officers who transferred to the air service late in their careers, eased through the naval air school at Pensacola, then took seniority and position over younger airmen. Such an officer is Admiral Ernest Joseph King, commander of the Atlantic Fleet (TIME, June 2), who used to have Jack Towers...