Word: magraw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held in Philadelphia's Convention Hall attended by 15,000. They varied in expense from the 35? charged in Milwaukee to the $100 a plate charged at a dinner given at Manhattan's Central Park Casino by Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, one-time actress (Up in Mabel's Room}. Mrs. Magraw found, however, that she could sell only two $100 tickets, to herself and her husband. So she refused to wear her tiara, did not use her gold plates, filled her table at $7.50 a head. The first Presidential birthday ball (1934) netted...
Returning to Manhattan from a West Indian holiday, Sprinkler Manufacturer William Magraw discovered that his wife, Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, widow of Publisher Edward R. Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: "It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with...
Married. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann, relict of New York Morning Telegraph Publisher Edward Russell Thomas; and William Magraw, president of Manhattan's Underground Installations Co.; in Manhattan. Later kidnappers demanded $150,000 not to kidnap the bride's daughter Lucetta Cotton Thomas, 7, $2,000,000 heiress...