Word: comptons
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...that time Jimmy Walker was loafing in Cannes with his favorite girl friend, curvaceous Betty Compton, dancer (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen). They had become friends five years before, when wisecracking, dandified, vote-getting Mayor Walker was giving New York City the kind of musical-comedy administration it could then afford. They danced to Leo Reisman's orchestra at the Central Park Casino, munched hot dogs to the smack of Babe Ruth's home runs at Yankee Stadium, first-nighted the boom-time musicals, which often ran the Mayor's plug in their theatre ads. Those were...
Thrice-married Betty Compton, 36, announced that she had had enough. This week she filed suit for a Florida divorce. "Being a woman of acute sensibility," said plaintiff, "the demand made upon her as the wife of a prominent public figure was such . . . that she became ill. . . ." She wanted her freedom, $5,000 a year as long as she remains unmarried, and equal custody of their two adopted children. For once Jimmy Walker, 59, seemed quite chapfallen, had nothing...
Died. Caro Lloyd Strobell, 81, who with two younger friends (69 and 71) recently took title to the Communist Daily Worker (TIME, Aug. 12) to preserve it "as a medium of free expression in the interest of the working people of America"; in Little Compton, R. I. Comrade Earl Browder called her: "an outstanding example of the best American character...
Husband In San Jose, Calif., Mrs. James E. Compton, seeking a divorce, testified that her husband's shadowboxing terrified her in the daytime, that his "deep, ringside breathing" kept her awake at night...
...Compton, after a meeting with Lohr, decided museum troubles were due more to financial problems than Lohr management. But Dr. Philip Fox still wondered whether the people of Chicago wanted their museum handled in such a "brazen manner." But there was no mass uprising. Bad sign for Dr. Fox and his 19 ousted colleagues came when the Major bought a $100,000, 14-room mansion in Evanston. Major & Mrs. Lohr planned to move in by Sept. 1 with their five children, a large butterfly collection...