Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III, late No. i U.S. clubman, posthumously appeared by proxy in Manhattan's Surrogate Court. The claim of $231,750, brought against his estate after his death in 1942 by Muriel Paterson, onetime showgirl, who charged that Vanderbilt had guaranteed her $750 a month for life for acting as hostess on his yacht and for "special services" rendered, was finally settled in full...
Maisie, an ex-showgirl, has an undulant walk that elicits wolf calls from welders' masks as she saunters about the plant. But Maisie is a model of kindliness, courage, efficiency. Iris is more of an artist's model. She shanghaies Maisie's pilot into betrothal. She is even more bored than Maisie with the richly kidded clubs for "Ladies in Waiting" (girls who are waiting for servicemen to come home) which are set up to boost the morale of women war workers. She gets her unbound hair caught in the plant machinery and is fired. She sobs...
...most beautiful language." Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville Jr., 49, announced that his next (seventh) wife would be Macie Marie Ainsworth Ettinger ("Sunny") Moran, 19-year-old, twice-married ex-showgirl...
Divorced. Hannah Williams Dempsey, 31, onetime showgirl; by Coast Guard Lieut. Commander William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 48, onetime heavy weight champion; in White Plains...
Down the gangplank of a hospital ship at a West Coast port came hard little Marine Corporal Barney Ross, back from Guadalcanal with a few shrapnel wounds, back to Kaye, the showgirl he married shortly before he went off to war. Off the gangplank, he got down on his hands & knees, kissed the ground. "This I vowed to do if ever I saw American soil again," he explained gravely; "sometimes out there we're not so sure. . . ." Clutching a native-made cane decorated with "real Jap teeth," he told about his blistering nightlong battle in a shell hole (TIME...