Word: stepson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first marriage to Anna Wilmarth Thompson, who died in a motor crash in 1935, Mr. Ickes has a son, Raymond, now 26, who last month got a job in the U. S. Attorney's office, Manhattan. He had a stepson, Wilmarth, who committed suicide in 1936. He and the first Mrs. Ickes also had two foster-children: a girl who is now Mrs. ReQua Bryant of Evanston, Ill., and Robert H. Ickes, 25, onetime WPA clerk, now employed by Duquesne Light Co. in Pittsburgh, who last week eloped with Marcelle Charlotte Levine, 19, to Lisbon, Ohio, where they were...
...Gentleman), but his newspaper ventures turned to lead. He bought and killed off three famed Philadelphia newspapers to keep his morning and evening Public Ledger alive, also acquired the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Inquirer. Before he died in 1933 he turned over management of them to his stepson-in-law, John Charles Martin, who got his business start selling coat hangers to villagers along the Ohio River...
Wells Lewis '39, son of novelist Sinclair Lewis and stepson of columnist Dorothy Thompson, becomes a novelist in his own right this June, when his love story ontitled "They Still Say No" (title written by father Lewis) is to be published...
Blonde, chubby Edmée, Lady Owen, whose late stepson Reginald was ex-Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde's first husband, turned up in Manhattan, gaily prattled to newshawks about her madcap life. Highlights: 1) a prison term for the shooting of a French doctor's wife; 2) a romance with the late mysterious octogenarian Munitions Maker Sir Basil ("Arms and the Men") Zaharoff; 3) a trip to British Honduras to call on an unknown man who had written her a letter. Explained Lady Owen: "I was very eccentric...
...Cabinet's only unmarried member had taken the wise women of Washington by surprise. They had known that an earnest, athletic girl, sister of the wife of his late stepson Wilmarth, had visited in his Washington home on and off since 1935. She had worked at small jobs in the Interior, helped run his empty home for him, accompanied him to social functions, helped him select and decorate his country place, "Headwater Farm" near Olney, Md. During his illness last year she visited his hospital bedside almost daily. Their relationship had seemed like that of father & daughter...