Word: ledyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Dorothy Ledyard Knight, former wife of Manhattan's hooligan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight, who once stood on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House; and Reville Kniffen, 39, onetime cinema executive, now vice president of Zenith Home Products; in Reno Nev. Fumed ex-Husband Knight: "He's nothing but a traveling salesman-a peddler of B-pictures. . . . She's headline-crazy. Mrs. Knight will come crawling back...
...privately famed, privately printed brochures-this one as a Christmas throwaway. Title of this year's effort: Our Friends and Relatives All Stink, or Just Awearyin' for You. He reported happily that he had induced his ex-wife (Dorothy, daughter of the late Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr.) "to spend $2 on me for every $1 she spends on herself. . . . I am just not happy unless I have lots and lots of money to spend. I mean I have to have it. It is my nature. I am like that...
Another ex-Harvard man, George E. Egan, of Belmont, Mass., was awarded Yale's Ledyard Mitchell prize for punting proficiency...
Divorced. Manhattan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight: by Dorothy Ledyard Knight; in Reno, on her third...
Lawyer Knight's language has been broadcast in a series of mimeographed letters, to a mailing list of more than 3,000. The objective of his mail campaign has been to direct attention to the alleged mishandling of the estate of his late father-in-law, Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr. Lucky readers of his epistles wondered as they read: Why could not more legal writing be like Knight...