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Married. Ruth Jump, 19, 1936 women's national high-platform diving champion; and Ralph Flanagan, 22, bigtime amateur swimmer (last year he held four places on the National A. A. U. All-America swimming team); after an airplane elopement; in Yuma, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...have been told by Mark Twain -capture by a mean reward-hunter, whose precocious daughter petted him, stole his $13; escape and recapture and escape again; apprenticeship to a kindly windbag who dyed Ray's hair black, stained his face, billed him in his medicine show as Little Yuma the Captive Child, kidnapped by hostile Sioux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Western | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Married Again. Stan Laurel, 42, professionally addle-pated cinemactor, to Vera Ivanova Shuvalova, 28, Russian singer; for the second time in eight weeks, just to make sure and because his former wife, Virginia Ruth Laurel, had insisted he was still her husband; in Yuma, Ariz., as before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Married. Stan Laurel, 43, hair-scratch-ing, empty-headed film funnyman, partner of fat Oliver Hardy; to Vera Ivanova Shuvalova, 28, a Russian singer; day after his divorce; in Yuma, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...South Central Avenue (Negro district). Villain Maceo B. Sheffield was for ten years the meanest looking cop on the L. A. police force, now owns a piece of the 41 Club, the 833 Club, the Montmartre and the Last Round. Connie Harris, who works in the Paradise Cafe in Yuma, Ariz., has been described as a streamlined coffeecake; Comedian F. E. Miller once wrote an all-colored show (Shuffle Along), which was better than most white musicals produced in its time, ran two years on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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