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Unending afflictions qualified 36-year old Teppe as the prophet of "implacable pessimism." As a child he was constantly ill and morose. He lost the sight of an eye in his 20s in a way no doctor could explain. Since then he has been plagued by rheumatism, sciatica, asthma, stomach ailments, severe headaches, and extreme insomnia. Dressed in pallbearer black, he drags out his days on a birdlike diet of bread crusts and boiled vegetables, in a barren, unheated apartment, aggressively campaigning to stimulate public interest in despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel...
Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, relict of Millionaire "Daddy" Browning and favorite child bride of the tabloids in the '20s, said that she was going to marry her fourth. After Browning had come 1) a Denver showman, 2) a San Francisco department-store tycoon. Groom-in-prospect: Ralph N. Willson, a former Columbus, Ohio picture-frame maker...
Divorced. Mickey Walker, 44, world's middle and welterweight champ of the '20s, today a self-taught, persevering painter; by Wife No. 3 Eleanor Marvil Walker; after seven years of marriage, one child; in Newark, N.J. Said she: "Art is now Mickey's only love...
Growing Pains. This phenomenal growth has all been within the last decade. It began one day in the late '20s in Dallas when 1,500 schoolteachers asked Baylor University Hospital if it would furnish three weeks prepaid care for a fixed, per-person payment of $6 a year. The hospital, scenting a dependable source of income, said...
Park Avenue stylists have recently plumped for new variations of the once-famous bangs hairdo of the flapper era. Some, fashion designers happily predict a return to the slim, boyish John Held figure, a '20s favorite...