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...Williams, curvilinear cinema pinup* sued by Argentine Playboy "Macoco" (Martin de Alzaga Unzue) for $35,000-odd (she took his gifts and then ditched him, he complained), made an interesting retort. She had married him once, and living with him was "too dangerous," she protested. She declared that he "used to beat himself up, scratch his face and bite my leg. There was a pretty bad time all around. He would beat his head against the wall. It was difficult to be married to a man like that." Said Señor Macoco, shocked: "I cannot imagine anything more ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...Williams, curvilinear cinema pinup, was sued for $30,000 by her ex-husband, Argentine Playboy "Macoco" (Martin de Alzaga Unzuej. She had promised to remarry him, he said, once she got her mother settled in a home of her own; so he bought a house for mama and a trousseau for Kay. Then, the day after they made a date to set the date, he read in a newspaper that she had just married Sugar Heir Adolph B. Spreckels Jr. (TIME,. Sept. 17). Macoco explained his suit: "It's the principle. ... I do not like being made a sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Politics | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Daphne Hellman, blonde, curvilinear socialite harpist, lost a New York Court of Appeals decision in her fight for custody of her three-year-old son. Winner: the husband she divorced in 1941, Henry Adsit Bull Jr., Town & Country's playful editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Sergeant Joe Louis' curvilinear wife Marva decided to go on the stage, prepared herself with Manhattan singing lessons, declared: "I feel if a woman has talent she ought to make the most of it." She further explained that the Louises have a number of properties and relatives to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...brave one-man revival of prestidigitatorial entertainment, but not at tent-show prices. Service men got in free; the rest paid $11 a seat opening night, a $5.50 top thereafter. For that they got two bewitching hours of the versatile Wonder Boy, dazzlingly costumed, reading minds, hypnotizing his curvilinear assistant, Starlet Mary Rowland, whipping rabbits out of hats and bowls full of rice out of nowhere, sawing ladies in halves, levitating stooges, and triumphantly producing Rita Hayworth from a trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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