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Sued. By Jackie Coogan, 23, onetime child cinemactor (The Kid); his mother and stepfather; on charges that they are continuing to withhold from him $4,000,000 which he earned as a minor. Young Mr. Coogan, who recently married Cinemactress Betty Grable, declared himself broke.
Married. Vera Reynolds, onetime cinemactress; to Robert Ellis, cinemauthor; in Los Angeles. Married eleven years ago, they found their marriage legally invalid, quarreled. She sued him for $150,000 for breach of promise. Friends persuaded them to settle the suit by being married again.
John Pierpont Morgan sued Manhattan's Sound & Harbor Towing Corp. for $3,500. Reason: A scow towed by a tug bumped his 343-foot, turboelectric yacht, Corsair. Banker Morgan accused the tugboat pilot of 1) negligence, 2) attempting to leave the scene of the accident.
Night and Day, a London imitation of The New Yorker, was published from last July to January, then folded up. Its best piece of fortune was that it had libel insurance when dimpled, kink-curly Shirley Temple sued it because of Critic Graham Greene's review of her Wee...
Harriet Monroe was apparently the only person in Chicago who could have made such an attempt. Born there in 1860, she always regarded it as a village. Her father was a well-read, moderately successful lawyer who could not keep track of money, complained about his wife's hats...